(don’t forget attention getter). Point of view establishes a griping sense of how the story will be portrayed to the readers. The short stories, “Live to Tell”, “And of Clay We Are Created”, and “Moment Before the Gun Went Off” all share the literary device point of view, which contributes to mood in the stories.
The short story, “Live to Tell” by Lisa Gardner is told in first person. Victoria, one of the main characters, tells the day-to-day life in her house. The story creates a mood of being terrified of what might come next. In the first incident with Victoria and Evan, Victoria rushed to the bathroom and finds the only thing that will help in this sticky situation, “Tranquilizer tablets firm in hand, I creep into the hallway of my now …show more content…
The narrator creates a shocking and sad mood. This story is about a farmer and a boy. As they are working out in the field something tragic happens. The boy’s mother does not know how or what to say; “But she says nothing, does nothing. She doe not look up; she does not look at Van der Vvyer, whose gun went off in the truck, she stared at the grave”(116, Gordimer). The narrator creates this sad mood from the mother’s actions. All she does is watch as her boy’s body is being lowered into the ground. Although at this time, there was a lot of conflict being blacks and whites, the farmer and the boy did not have a boss and worker relationship. They were friends, but besides that, the narrator created a shocking mood as the readers read the last line. “The young black callously shot through the negligence of the while man was not the farmer’s boy; he was his son”(117, Gardimer). The ending probably shocked readers based on this segregated time because most whites and blacks only mixed when the blacks would come looking for work. Readers may question, Who is Alide? The wife and the boy’s mother or are they two completely different
The short story, “Live to Tell” by Lisa Gardner is told in first person. Victoria, one of the main characters, tells the day-to-day life in her house. The story creates a mood of being terrified of what might come next. In the first incident with Victoria and Evan, Victoria rushed to the bathroom and finds the only thing that will help in this sticky situation, “Tranquilizer tablets firm in hand, I creep into the hallway of my now …show more content…
The narrator creates a shocking and sad mood. This story is about a farmer and a boy. As they are working out in the field something tragic happens. The boy’s mother does not know how or what to say; “But she says nothing, does nothing. She doe not look up; she does not look at Van der Vvyer, whose gun went off in the truck, she stared at the grave”(116, Gordimer). The narrator creates this sad mood from the mother’s actions. All she does is watch as her boy’s body is being lowered into the ground. Although at this time, there was a lot of conflict being blacks and whites, the farmer and the boy did not have a boss and worker relationship. They were friends, but besides that, the narrator created a shocking mood as the readers read the last line. “The young black callously shot through the negligence of the while man was not the farmer’s boy; he was his son”(117, Gardimer). The ending probably shocked readers based on this segregated time because most whites and blacks only mixed when the blacks would come looking for work. Readers may question, Who is Alide? The wife and the boy’s mother or are they two completely different