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theme of forgetfulness of the story:my lost dollar by Stephen leacock

Answer 1

In the story my dollar r, the the theme forgetfulness can be seen. In this story, the narrator's friend Todd nitrous a dollar from him to pay for a taxi right before he left for Bermuda. The exchange was quite natural and the narrator did not even realize it into it was over. Todd then leaves for Bermuda and sometime later sends a note to the narrator. The narrator opens the note expecting the dollar but finds that it instead days the temperature on Bermuda us nearly hundred. Todd returns from Bermuda and the narrator goes to the station to meet him. This was not because of the dollar, but because he really respected Todd. On the way to the club, he suggests that they take a taxi, hoping that this would remind Todd of the dollar, but his attempt fails. He makes many similar attempts to remind Todd, but none of them succeed. The narrator give who as he thinks that Todd had truly forgotten about the dollar. Hos thought leads him onto another track that maybe just like Todd had forgotten that he had borrowed a dollar from the narrator, maybe he (narrator) too had forgotten that he had taken a dollar from somebody. Ultimately this causes him to want to start a bAck tho honestly movement because for a nation to be prosperous, it needs to be an epitome ofof honesty. At the end the narrator requests that no reader of this book should leave it where it could catch major Todd's eye.

Answer 2

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The narrator’s friend Todd borrowed one dollar from him. Todd was going to Bermuda. The narrator went to see him off. Todd asked for a dollar in change to pay his taxi. The narrator lent it to him, believing that Todd meant to return it.

That was twelve months ago. Todd has not repaid the dollar. The narrator is afraid that now there is little prospect of his ever getting it back. Todd meets him inn the same frank friendly way as he always did. This is a certain indication that he has completely forgotten about the dollar he borrowed from the narrator.

Todd was away in Bermuda for three weeks. The narrator was at the railway station to receive him. He was there not because of the dollar but because he esteems his friend. They spent the evening together at the Club, talking about Bermuda.

The narrator could not ask his friend about his dollar. One simply can’t. But he gave him enough hints. Still, he failed to remind Todd. Since then, the two friends meet practically every day and the narrator keeps on dropping hints but Todd doesn’t pick them up. Not deliberately, of course. He simply seems to have forgotten.

The fact that Todd has completely forgotten about his dollar has begun to give the narrator a rather painful thought. It is quite possible that, like Todd, he himself too must have forgotten to pay such small amounts to his friends. If that is so, there is no chance of his doing so now. So he would like such of his friends to remind him. But not all at once. In reasonable numbers and in alphabetical order if possible. He will take down their names on paper. The narrator would not, however, entertain the claims of those from whom he might have borrowed an add dollar while playing cards in the Club or a few cents for a bottle of plain soda.

He wants to start a general Back to Honesty movement so that all those, including himself, who borrowed a dollar to pay for a taxi, may return that money. After all, the greatest nations were built upon the rock basis of absolute honesty. The narrator concludes with the hugely funny warning to his readers that they should not be careless enough to leave this essay anywhere where it might be seen by his friend Major Todd, whose Club address he doesn’t fail to mention. Why mention the address if you don’t intend it to fall into your friend’s way?

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