mietzekatze1
22.09.2012, 15:10
Wie schreibt man in Englisch eine Analyse?

Ich war krank und habe jetzt über das Wochenende die Aufgabe bekommen einen teil Abshcnitt zu analysieren....

Kann mir das jemand krigieren?

The short story „Red“ written by Dallas Woodburn, published in 2005, deals with how Grace as a young adult is unable to overcome the grief over the death of her mother. In this story you can identify a third person limited narrator. The narration concentrates on Grace. The effect of this narrative perspective is that you can feel better into the person because the story concentrates only on one person. The following text extract takes from line 39 to line 86. This is a scene from a special day that Graces had together with her mother before she died. It was a rainy day but her mother wants to fly a kite. This analyzing concentrates on Grace’s feelings at the day together with her mother. It was raining cats an frogs and Grace feels a little bit unwell because “Grace’s clothes had grown heavy and cumbersome” (l. 22) and it seems her strange why they are alone in the in the deserted Park “Grace asked about her daddy” (L.9) and she finds it crazy why her mother wants to let a kite fly in the rain. But she loved her mother and she knew that she is ill. “Grace tightly held her mother’s hand” (L. 1) and “Grace squeezed her mother’s hand” (l. 13). This shows how good they hold together. The metaphor in line 59: “BBs of water” could stand for the inseparableness too. The simile in line 43 and 44: “like a magic kingdom” shows how good she feels if she is spend time together with her mother and that the time together let forget the grey desert atmosphere. quite the contrary it let it seem like a golden kingdom with happiness. And line 50 underlined this: “That’s all we need. Just you and me” shows how lucky they are if they are together and how fancy they are together. But these lucky and good feeling is maybe accompanied from a sad feeling about the illness from her mother. The sad feeling from Grace is underlined form the Metaphor in l 42: “leaden sky” the gray sky could stand for a sad atmosphere and “all the tiny teardrops” (23-24) underlines the sadness and could stand for the tears of her mother. But on the other side there many symbols for hope for example “the rainbow on the kite“(L. 43) and the “Baby steps” “l 26 and 28) are symbols for hope because they have a positive effect. Grace hopes that the time together with her mother would never end and she hopes that her mother’s illness get better soon. In conclusion I would say that Grace on the one hand was sad and feeling unwell but on the other hand she enjoyed the time together with her mother.

(HAbe es noch nie gemacht und wäre froh um verbessungsvorschläge)

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Antwort
von yawei
24.01.2017, 17:59

Auch wenn das hier spät kommt: wir, der Englischkurs 11 eines Hamburger Gymnasiums, haben uns auch mit "Red" beschäftigt und folgende Analyse verfasst. Wir hoffen, dass sie den Leuten hilft, die das hier auch heute noch lesen:

Die Analyse besteht aus:
1. summary, 2. narrative perspective, 3. stylistic devices (in eckigen Klammern angegeben)

[Summary]
"The short story "Red", written by Dallas Woodburn in 2005 tells the story of a girl named Grace who tries to overcome her grief over her mother's death, who died of cancer when she was a young girl.

When Grave knocks over a bottle of red nail polish, she is shocked. All the memories of her dead mother come back to her mind. She especially connects flying a kite in the park with her. On the other hand, she often thinks back of her mother dying in the hospital after a chemo therapy. Eventually however, those memories help her to survive all the pain she has because of her mother's death.

[Narrative perspective]
The story is told by a third person limited narrator, who tells the story from the perspective of Grace a few years after her mother died. It can be seen in line 170, “,.. with the same tiny brush that had traced her mother's nails nearly a decade ago”. As a result, the reader is able to understand Grace's feelings and actions in a better way.

[Stylistic devices]
There are many stylistic devices in this short story which are helpful to get a better understanding of the story. I am going to talk about the, in my opinion, most important ones which convey that Grace's feelings are torn between positive and negative.

The first stylistic device I am going to talk about is in line 57.This one is a metaphor: "Her mother stood a few feet away, face turned skyward, eyes squinting against the driving BBs of water []". The BBs represent all the negative influences Grace's and her mother's environment has on them. It is used as an analogy to show the reader how difficult and unforgiving their situation is.

In line 43 we find a simile: "[] a magic kingdom that belonged only to her and her mother." It is used to explain how happy both Grace and her mother are when they spend time together. It again suggests to the reader that the outside world has mostly bad influences upon them while they try to make their lives worthwhile.

A symbol which returns several times in the short story are the "baby steps" – for example, in line 66 and 197. The baby steps are a symbol of hope which returns in all of Graces downhearted moments. In my opinion they are the main point of the story, because hope is the only thing she has after her mother´s death. It is not always possible to directly achieve what you want but there is always hope in the form of baby steps that you can take baby in order to achieve your goal. "Baby steps have a way of adding up to a lot of big steps." (l.66) This stylistic device helps the reader to understand the way in which Grace tries to overcome her mother´s death.

Furthermore, we can find a repetition in line 9: “[watching and waiting. Waiting and watching.” It shows how undecided and helpless Grace is in this situation. That allows the reader to understand that there is something wrong with Grace.

Additionally, the vixen red nail polish and the amount of nail polish which is left in the bottle are the two most important symbols of this short story. The nail polish stands for the remembrance of her mother. This becomes clear in the beginning of the story when Grace is shocked after knocking over the nail polish. The memory of her mom is seeking into the carpet so to speak. The amount of nail polish which is left in the bottle is a symbol of how close Grace is to getting over her loss. After knocking it over it´s nearly empty and she starts to get happier again. You can see this in line 204 to 206: “What a perfect day, she thought, smiling as squinting she squinted into the falling raindrops, to fly a kite.” Flying a kite was a symbol for fun, when her mother was still alive. So she starts flying a kite again to have fun again. 

To conclude, we can say that these stylistic devices are used to underline the bad and good moments of Grace’s life with and without her mother. But as I've shown the bad experiences outweigh the good ones and therefore the short story strikes the reader as a sad one.

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