Short analysis Q1&3 Dearth

1.     There was the cast-iron pot full of seven normal potatoes, which the woman didn’t know where they were from. The woman asked her neighbor if the potatoes were wrongly delivered like the sunflowers before, but the answer was no. The woman threw the potatoes in the trash, but the next morning they went back in the same cast-iron pot on the stove. The woman took them across the road and dropped them one by one into the trash Dumpster. The next morning, the same potatoes returned, and the woman dropped them on the front stoop of her neighbor, but they returned again in the next morning in the cast-iron pot with slightly differences.

2.     The woman put the potatoes in the oven and made them crispy, ad she took them into the road. The seven-raw, gray, growing potatoes went back again the next morning. The potatoes were sent to Ireland in a box with no return address, but they returned again. The woman tried various methods to destroy the potatoes but she never succeeded. The potatoes became some shapes of human babies. The woman sliced the potatoes up and threw them out of the window, and she ate one piece. The next morning, she found seven little pale gray potato babies with legs and arms.

3.     One day in the autumn, she put the potatoes in the oven for an hour and a half, and she ate one potato and had a stomachache. She found six potatoes in the pot the next morning.

4.     The woman buried two potatoes in the soil because the pot had little room for the six potatoes that were growing bigger. On the eighth month, potato babies were fully formed with nails and feet, with eyelids and ears and potato knots. On the ninth month, the potatoes could move slowly on the floor, open their eyes with white pupils. They were named One, Two, Three and Four, and they always watched the woman go and waited her at the window.

5.     The potatoes were buried in the soil by the woman and never came back. The woman dug them out several weeks later, and they stepped into her arms.

6.     The four potatoes lifted their hands to touch the farmer they met in another county and they found amazing when they saw the farmer’s boy eat popcorn.

7.     It began to rain when the five went halfway home, and when the rain fell on the potatoes’ bodies, the smell reminded the woman of her mother.