The+Chair+Carrier

=THE CHAIR CARRIER=

 **Summar**y:
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The Chair Carrier by Yusuf Idris, is about an Arabian man who encounters another man carrying this heavy chair. The man carrying the chair refuses to stop carrying the chair unless someone of authority tells him to do so. The A rabian man tells the chair carrier to put it down, but he wouldn't listen. The chair carrier would not listen to the Arabian man telling him to put the chair down because he knew he had a difficult task to accomplish and would not rest until it was finished to perfection like he was taught to do so. There was a sign attached to the chair carriers' back that stated that the man has carried the chair long enough and he could now put the chair down and finally rest from his long journey. However, the Arabian man told him, he did not have the **token of authorization**. In a way the **burden** was shifted from the chair carrier to theman; for not knowing who authorized the paper.


 * Symbolization:**

The chair symbolizes something in your life that makes you struggle and is extremely difficult to cope with but you have to cope with it becausenothing in life will ever get accomplished if you were only to do the easy things and never face the hard tasks. Life struggles can feel like yourpulling a lot of extra weight, just like "carrying a chair."

The point of this story was to say that everybody has a purpose in life. This man's purpose in life was carrying this chair as a burden for something. There is a strong possibility that he may have known what the note on the back of the chair said. He felt if he put the chair down, he would not have known what to do for the rest of his life. With that said, he kept on carrying the chair so he knew he still had a purpose in life.


 * Some words to know from the story**


 * disastrous**- causing great danger
 * colossal**- extremely large
 * gait-** a persons manner of walking
 * prostrated**- laying stretched out on the ground with ones face downward.
 * gilded**- covered thinly in gold
 * amidst-** in or into the middle of
 * gaunt**- lean and haggard because f suffering, hunger, or age.
 * rivulets**- a very small stream-
 * inadequately**- not up to speed or not capable
 * proposition-**a statement that expresses a judgment or opinion.
 * ghastly**- causing great horror or fear
 * contemplate**- to look through thoroughly for a long time or to think about
 * stout**-somewhat fat or heavy