The Rental Heart
Kirsty Logan is the author of the short story “The Rental Heart”. The main characters are portrayed using rental hearts that they acquire after their old ones have been broken. Hearts can be rented as many times as an individual needs. They can be put in the chest in the event that the individual is heartbroken, he/she can go to the rental store and get a new one. In most cases, authors often give short stories titles that may not be directly related to the content of the story. In the short story "The Rental Heart", it is very easy to see why the author gave the book that title. The story is about a guy/girl who was so severally heartbroken that each time he/she would rent a new heart to replace the broken one. The events …show more content…
The author also describes lovers as having red mouths and round-like quims. He describes a radio to be coughing and something that shouts music. Logan employed traditional storytelling techniques like the use of myths and folk role to describe the present day dilemma in society. The story is written in a chronological manner leaping over time. The narrator employs the use of flashbacks when referring to Jacob, who thought their love was meant to last forever but in reality it translated to six months. Initially, we meet the main character talking about the day he met Grace and how he went to the rental store, a place he had never gone to for the last ten years. From the information he gives regarding Grace, we notice that there was a problem. The exact number of years the story takes cannot be accurately determined from the short story. We assume that when the main character met Grace he was a youth and is currently an adult. That means the story is developed through a long duration of time.
Throughout the short story, the sex of the main character cannot be easily determined as we see the character dating both men and women. The story is developed through a first person narrator, and we hear from the story the main character’s point of view. The author portrays the main character in a way such that determining his/her identity was not possible. We are left
Kirsty Logan is the author of the short story “The Rental Heart”. The main characters are portrayed using rental hearts that they acquire after their old ones have been broken. Hearts can be rented as many times as an individual needs. They can be put in the chest in the event that the individual is heartbroken, he/she can go to the rental store and get a new one. In most cases, authors often give short stories titles that may not be directly related to the content of the story. In the short story "The Rental Heart", it is very easy to see why the author gave the book that title. The story is about a guy/girl who was so severally heartbroken that each time he/she would rent a new heart to replace the broken one. The events …show more content…
The author also describes lovers as having red mouths and round-like quims. He describes a radio to be coughing and something that shouts music. Logan employed traditional storytelling techniques like the use of myths and folk role to describe the present day dilemma in society. The story is written in a chronological manner leaping over time. The narrator employs the use of flashbacks when referring to Jacob, who thought their love was meant to last forever but in reality it translated to six months. Initially, we meet the main character talking about the day he met Grace and how he went to the rental store, a place he had never gone to for the last ten years. From the information he gives regarding Grace, we notice that there was a problem. The exact number of years the story takes cannot be accurately determined from the short story. We assume that when the main character met Grace he was a youth and is currently an adult. That means the story is developed through a long duration of time.
Throughout the short story, the sex of the main character cannot be easily determined as we see the character dating both men and women. The story is developed through a first person narrator, and we hear from the story the main character’s point of view. The author portrays the main character in a way such that determining his/her identity was not possible. We are left