Again, he is reminded and ashamed of his ineptitude when acknowledging that Claire has had to take extra shifts at her job because he is unable to provide for the family financially. When they return home, his wife Claire rushes off to the hospital-where she works as nurse-while the narrator is left to care for his three children, Ben, Sam, and Evie. The narrator is unable to help but be embarrassed by his own uselessness. The story begins with a description of the humiliation the narrator experiences as he watches his wife and children drag their newly purchased Christmas tree to the car. After nearly sixteen weeks confined at home, he spends his days watching his family from the living room floor where he lies to rest his back. Suffering daily from the excruciating pain of his back injury, the unnamed narrator is unable to work and can barely move. But there’s a wildfire catching in the whip of the wind that could start a conflagration like there has never been.In “Like a House on Fire,” Cate Kennedy tells the story of an ordinary man whose whole life is turned upside down when he has an accident at work. I don’t have the gift of the prophecy, telling everybody how it’s gonna be. You go passing wrong for right and right for wrong, people only stand for that for just so long. Well, I don’t have the gift of the prophecy, telling everybody how it’s gonna be. It’s all gonna catch like a house on fire, spark an evil blaze and burn higher. Soon come, soon come the day this tinderbox is gonna blow in your face. I don’t have the gift of the prophecy telling everybody how it’s gonna be. I’ve been sitting here for the longest time reading all the warning and the danger signs. All you better best come and lean in boys ’cause I don’t dare to raise my voice. This house is on fire! Kick off your boots, come and sit a spell, listen to me worry, come and listen well.
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