My literature analysis is based on the short story "An Ounce of Cure" written by Alice Munro. Writing can be considered an expression. Sometimes authors think back on certain experiences or aspects of their lives, and express them through writing, and Alice Munro ingeniously displays this method. The story is written in first person, and it is about a young woman who recalls the most embarrassing event of her adolescence, an incident that dramatizes the truth that choices have a lasting effect, as they inevitably lead to consequences that affect the course of her growing. The story can be compared to a real life conflict that most of us have gone through in some moment in our lives. The fact is that this girl wanted to resolve her problem by getting drunk, so she could forget about it. Her drinking problems could not be traced back to her family because they did not have any drinking habits. The true to the matter is that she wanted to get drunk so she could forget about a boy who broke up with her during high school. Since she had never gotten drunk before in her life, she did not think about the consequences of drinking because she was just a teenager. The quote on page 454, 4th paragraph exemplifies her lack of acknowledge about the cost of drinking:
             "When I say I was expecting extravagant results I do not mean that I was expecting this. I had thought of some sweeping emotional change, an upsurge of gaiety and irresponsibly, a feeling of lawlessness and escape, accompanied by a little dizziness and perhaps a tendency to giggle out loud."
             Apart from getting drunk one night she decided to swallow all the aspirins in her bathroom cabinet, but she stopped after taking six. This is something we see in the news on a daily basis; there is always some guy or girl who is found laying in his or her apartment dead due to an overdose of some kind of pill or drug, and the reasons mostly varies, but the common one is be...