Analysis Of A Question Of Justice By Karen Schur

The borderline approach to issues found in writing style of “A Question of Justice” From centuries many writer tried to address their social issues through their writing, these issues are a neverending source and is constantly changing throughout the development of their very own societies, some are old and others can be more modern; “A Question of Justice” is s short story written by Karen Schur to address the problem of human trafficking (mainly children) and child sexual exploitation in many third world countries in Asia (specifically on Southeast region) expressed through an ambiguous written journal of a nameless narrator who appear unreliable at times when telling his story and somehow failed his geography lessons.

A further elaboration for what it means by borderline approach is tied to the elements in the story itself, at one point it the story starts to get serious then not long after there will be a mood whiplash that kills the seriousness that has been building up. Starting with the narrator who appears to be someone who tries to take the issue they are looking into very seriously and tried hard to a certain extent to put at least an effort into halting the said issue as he expressed “Children are not safe when there are creatures like that…” and “How could I set something up so that the authorities could get involved?” (7) This effort, however, is brushed off at the end of the story “Then again, I might be out of picture completely. It’s easy to be cynical at my age” (8) the keyword here is “cynical” …show more content…
The idea here is how Schur plays with the lack of specificness and ambiguity of every single details in the story in order to keep the impact of the message on a mild level while delivering the said message to a vast field of affected