Everything you need to understand or teach The Wave by Liam O'Flaherty.
This story was included in a collection of early stories titled Spring Sowing. When O'Flaherty's friend and mentor, the critic Edward Garnett, told him to write about those things with which he was familiar, he naturally turned to the scene of his childhood: the bleak Aran Islands. Many of his stories are graphic descriptions of the peasant life on these nearly barren rocks, as human beings grapple with the unforgiving elements of nature...
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