A Literary Analysis Of The Story 'On The Subway'

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The story is about two people are who is the mugger and the other who is the woman that is rich. The story is in the perspective of the woman who is going to get mugged. She explains how she gets so much and how the black guy is mugging in order to get money and eat. The guy does not have any money or anything like that but the woman has money. How she is powerful since she has money and she eats the food that he does not. Some poetic devices are like tone which is fearful. She describes herself and how her life is by being rich. The organization is very regular and it is in chronological order. From where it starts and how it ends. She just pretty much describes everything in detail of what is happening and of what she

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