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SAILMAKER by Alan Spence
Alan Spence’s short story, “Sailmaker”, describes a father-son relationship and how the son’s toy yacht comes to symbolise several things in the boy’s life. Spence explores this relationship and themes of dreams and unfulfilled hopes through his use of language, structure and characters.
“Sailmaker” is divided into two sections. ... His father, a trained Sailmaker, works as a debt collector and continually promises the boy that he will make the yacht sail. ... Spence compares and contrasts the father being a Sailmaker and a Tick Man and thus how the boy feels about his father. ... ” As Spence is writing the story from the boy’s perspective, we see that the boy would have considered his father’s failed promises as unreasonable, whereas the boy doesn’t take into account his father’s commitments. ... ” Spence successfully uses the yacht to symbolise these ideas and we appreciate how important the yacht is to the boy.
Spence uses the second section to show that the boy is older and the family’s situation has changed.
Approximate Word count = 814
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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