The author recounts the most exciting incident of his life that occurred when he was a small boy. In the middle of the night, he and his family heard strange noises coming from the kitchen. Terrified that thieves had broken in, they began shouting for help. Neighbors gathered at the house but the mother refused to open the door, suspicious of everyone. When the night watchman finally arrived and investigated the kitchen, they discovered their cat with its head stuck in a tin box, trying to catch a rat, which was the source of the noises. It was an amusing misunderstanding that brought laughter and a neighborhood tea party.
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Close Reading in the Classroom “House Taken Over”
By Julio Cortázar
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“House Taken Over”
Julio Cortázar
Perform a close reading of the short story below. Remember the steps for reading closely:
Circle and define any unknown words in the left margin.
Highlight in yellow any passages necessary for understanding the plot. Note in the right margin any important details that are revealed.
Highlight in orange any passages necessary for interpreting the text.
We liked the house because, apart from its being old and spacious (in a day when old houses go down for a profitable auction of their construction materials), it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole of childhood.
Irene and I got used to staying in the house by ourselves, which was crazy; eight people could have lived in that place and not have gotten in each other's way. We rose at seven in the morning and got the cleaning done, and about eleven I left Irene to finish off whatever rooms and went to the kitchen. We lunched at noon precisely; then there was nothing left to do but a few dirty plates. It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great hollow, silent house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean. We ended up thinking, at times, that that was what had kept us from marrying. Irene turned down two suitors for no particular reason, and Maria Esther went and died on me before we could manage to get engaged. We were easing into our forties with the unvoiced concept that the quiet, simple marriage of sister and brother was the indispensable end to a line established in this house by our grandparents. We would die here someday, obscure and distant cousins would inherit the place, have it torn down, sell the bricks and get rich on the building plot; or more justly and better yet, we would topple it ourselves before it was too late.
Irene never bothered anyone. Once the morning housework was finished, she spent the rest of the day on the sofa in her bedroom, knitting. I couldn't tell you why she knitted so much; I think women knit when they discover that it's a fat excuse to do nothing at all. But Irene was not like that; she always knitted necessities, sweaters for winter, socks for me, handy morning robes and bed jackets for herself. Sometimes she would do a jacket, then unravel it the next moment because there was something that didn't please her; it was pleasant to see a pile of tangled wool in her knitting basket fighting a losing battle for a few hours to retain its shape. Saturdays I went downtown to buy wool; Irene had faith in my good taste, was pleased with the colors and never a skein had to be returned. I took advantage of these trips to make the rounds of the bookstores, uselessly asking if they had anything new in French literature. Nothing worthwhile had arrived in Argentina since1939.
But it's the house I want to talk about, the house and Ire ...
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Close Reading in the Classroom “House Taken Over”
By Julio Cortázar
Matthew Randon | 1
“House Taken Over”
Julio Cortázar
Perform a close reading of the short story below. Remember the steps for reading closely:
Circle and define any unknown words in the left margin.
Highlight in yellow any passages necessary for understanding the plot. Note in the right margin any important details that are revealed.
Highlight in orange any passages necessary for interpreting the text.
We liked the house because, apart from its being old and spacious (in a day when old houses go down for a profitable auction of their construction materials), it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole of childhood.
Irene and I got used to staying in the house by ourselves, which was crazy; eight people could have lived in that place and not have gotten in each other's way. We rose at seven in the morning and got the cleaning done, and about eleven I left Irene to finish off whatever rooms and went to the kitchen. We lunched at noon precisely; then there was nothing left to do but a few dirty plates. It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great hollow, silent house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean. We ended up thinking, at times, that that was what had kept us from marrying. Irene turned down two suitors for no particular reason, and Maria Esther went and died on me before we could manage to get engaged. We were easing into our forties with the unvoiced concept that the quiet, simple marriage of sister and brother was the indispensable end to a line established in this house by our grandparents. We would die here someday, obscure and distant cousins would inherit the place, have it torn down, sell the bricks and get rich on the building plot; or more justly and better yet, we would topple it ourselves before it was too late.
Irene never bothered anyone. Once the morning housework was finished, she spent the rest of the day on the sofa in her bedroom, knitting. I couldn't tell you why she knitted so much; I think women knit when they discover that it's a fat excuse to do nothing at all. But Irene was not like that; she always knitted necessities, sweaters for winter, socks for me, handy morning robes and bed jackets for herself. Sometimes she would do a jacket, then unravel it the next moment because there was something that didn't please her; it was pleasant to see a pile of tangled wool in her knitting basket fighting a losing battle for a few hours to retain its shape. Saturdays I went downtown to buy wool; Irene had faith in my good taste, was pleased with the colors and never a skein had to be returned. I took advantage of these trips to make the rounds of the bookstores, uselessly asking if they had anything new in French literature. Nothing worthwhile had arrived in Argentina since1939.
But it's the house I want to talk about, the house and Ire ...
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1. Paragraph on Most Exciting Incident of My Life
Editorial Staff • April 5, 2019 7 minutes read
Outline:
Introduction.
Description of the incident.
Conclusion.
Life is full of strange happenings. They seem very often to arise from very trifling causes.
But so long as we do not know the causes, they seem to be most exceptional. They
become very exciting. Life becomes interesting because of such things. They are very
welcome because they break the boredom of life. Holidays, for example, are welcome
changes in our routine of daily life. The arrival of relatives is also very exciting, specially
when they come unexpectedly. A thunderstorm during summer can also very exciting.
Quarrels of our neighbours give us some thrill, and when they make up their differences
and become friends, they give us delight, Sudden fires are also very exciting though, of
course, they are not at all welcome. The visit of great men to our town or school is a
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2. red-letter day in our life. Such incidents are happening very often and they give us
variety of experience. They sweeten life and add to our experience.
A very interesting thing happened to me when I was a small lad. I have regarded it as
the most exciting event in my life so far. It . was a very strange and fearful event when it
happened. It ended as a joke, though. But when it took place, it upset and terrified me
beyond description. Let me describe it in a right way.
It happened one night. I was sleeping with my elder brother in one room of our house.
Mother and sisters were sleeping in other rooms. Father was not present. At about
midnight I woke up as I heard some kind of sound coming from the kitchen of our
house. I was, truly speaking, afraid. It so happened that there were several thieves in our
neighbourhood in the past few weeks. Every one was alert and apprehensive. I was old
enough to imagine all sorts of robberies. I always imagined that big, black men would
break into the house, beat us and run away with all our belongings. This was a constant
fear with me in those days. We had no servants in our house, and father was out of
station.
Naturally, under such circumstances, any sound at night was. enough to terrify me. This
sound, as I said, came from the kitchen, which was in the backyard of our house. It was
a very strange sound. It sounded like some one opening the kitchen door. This door
was made of tin set in a wooden frame. It used to make much sound whenever it was
opened or was being shut. So I began to suspect that thieves had entered into our
backyard, and that they were forcing the door open. The sound became more and
insistent. I was, however, so terribly frightened that I was not even able to cry or speak.
And the sound went on increasing. It seemed to me that the thieves were inside the
kitchen and that they were removing our pots and pans. There were also several tin
boxes in which mother kept all the sweetmeats and other eatables. I was in a fix. I was
more anxious about the loss of sweetmeat than about other things. I did not know what
to do. I kept trembling in the bed.
However, the sound became so deafening that my brother also woke up. Mother also
woke up and we then began to shout for help. We were all certain that thieves were
there. We kept on crying and shouting and yelling. We drowned the sound of the
kitchen in our own shouts. The combined sound of our voices and that coming from the
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3. kitchen became very great indeed. It was enough to awake even deaf people. It was a
very exciting affair.
Our neighbours were alarmed and they came out to our house. They had gathered in
our compoạnd and were asking us to. open the door. They kept on shouting and
thumping on the door of our house. They thus added their own voice to that of ours.
But mother was not willing to open the door, to let our neighbours inside our house.
She refused to open the door, and said that if the door was . opened, the thieves might
rush in along with the neighbours. Besides, she was not certain about these neighbours.
She suspected that the thieves were acting the part of the neighbours.
She refused to believe that our neighbours had really come to help us at this late hour.
She was sure that the people outside were really thieves, pretending to be neighbours.
All this became very terribly exciting. Meanwhile, the sound from the kitchen did not
stop. It began to fill the whole of the kitchen. We imagined that the thieves were taking
away every pot and spoon and fork. My brother and sisters and I entreated mother to
open the door so that our neighbours might come in and see what could be done. But
she refused to listen to any such idea. She, however, said that she would wait till she
heard the voice of the night watchman who went round our house every night. She had
faith in no one else.
Fortunately, the voice of the night watchman became audible from a distance. We
breathed a sigh of relief. Mother became calm and anxiously waited for the arrival of
the watchman. To the repeated knocks of our neighbours the only said that the would
never open the door until the watchman arrived. Our neighbours were good people
and so they, waited in order to pacify mother, whom they knew to be a very generous
hostess.
The voice of the watchman came nearer and became louder, We were all glad at this. At
last the watchman came to our house and gave the usual word of caution, asking us to
wake up. There was no need of such a word on that night, since we were more than
awake! As soon as mother heard his reassuring voice, she opened the door.
All the neighbours now came in, followed by the watchman We all lined up. We were
about ten people now, including the watchman. The sound from the kitchen was going
on as usual. In fact, it became frantic, deafening. It seemed as if all the tin boxes were
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4. being thrown open, one after another. The watchman became our leader. With his big
stick and huge body he asked us to keep close behind him as he boldly went to the
door and stood ready to open it. This was our poor watchman leading to our kitchen. I
stood behind my brother all excited and curious.
The watchman then opened the door. He proceeded towards w the kitchen. We all
followed him cautiously, inch by inch. There was no light in the kitchen, and still the
sound inside did not stop. The watchman had his own lantern which he now held up. It
lighted the backyard and we saw that the door of the kitchen was not at all open. it was
closed as we had closed it when we went to sleep. So the incident became all the more
exciting. What was this sound proceeding from inside our kitchen?
Mother asked the watchman to open the door of the kitchen. We were glad to hear this
because mother did not allow any outsider inside the kitchen. She must have realised
the importance of some one opening the kitchen at this time. The watchman slowly,
opening the door, raised his lantern and his stick, ready to face any danger. But the
sound increased all the more as the watchman opened the door. He held the lantern up
and let light fall inside the kitchen. And then we saw a very strange thing.
The sound was being made by the movement of a cat whose head was inside a tin box
which it was rolling about the whole of the . kitchen. The cat had put its head inside the
tin box but was unable to take it out. And so it was running from one corner of the
kichen to another most fanatically. All the sound we heard was due to this strange
adventure of the cat. As we all entered into the kitchen, we stood wondering and
delighted at this performance of the cat. Meanwhile, our entrance made the cat more
excited. It jumped and thumped and danced and ran about for its very life. It could not
see us since its head was stuck inside the tin.
And now one of our neighbours came forth to rescue this poor cat which was almost
mad in its efforts to free itself from the tin box. He asked us to clear out and leave the
door fully opened. He then caught the cat and pulled it out. The cat was thus taken out
and as it came out, we saw that it was holding a rat in its mouth. We now saw what it all
meant. It was clear that the rat had entered the tin box to meat the sweetmeats and
that the cat had tried to catch the rat. But somehow or other, the head of the cat had
got itself held up inside the tin box. Evidently, the mouth of the box was big enough.
And so the poor cat had got its head fixed inside the box. And it was trying to get its
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5. head out of that box. All the noise and sound had procession from the rat’s adventure
with the cat. in the I wish I could describe the great fun and uproarious laughter which
broke out froim us all when we saw the adventure of our own cat. We all looked a little
foolish when we saw what a fuss we had made about this little affair. The thieves were
really responsible for all this. They had caused a panic in the neighbourhood by their
reported burgleries. All the neighbours were glad when they saw that it was all a cat’s
work. Father, however, was very happy because this gave him an excuse for inviting our
neighbours to a tea-party the next morning. The watchman was not forgotten. And the
whole company broke up and we all went back to our beds. Father repeated the
invitation to each neighbour as they bid goodnight and left our house. And so the
whole affair ended.
This strange incident had left a lasting impression upon my memory. I have entertained
many of my friends by describing it very often. I hope I have done the same thing now.
If you think that this is an exaggerated story, please consult our neighbours and our cat,
on . whose neck there are still the marks of that night’s adventure.
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