- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Reflecting shamefully on his mistake, the narrator reveals the irony of stealing the melon in order to be included in the community. Although he has only recently moved to the area from town, the narrator’s parents seem to be from the area, as they remember watermelon raiding in their youth. By stealing the melon to fit in to the community, the narrator is attempting to inherit that tradition from his parents, and ultimately fit into the world where they grew up.
But by stealing the “great seed melon from a man like Mr. Wills,” the narrator violates the community’s norms…