The Right Passengers | Analysis

I denne study guide får du Studienets hjælp til at analysere novellen "The Right Passengers" af Waqar Ahmed. Desuden kigger vi også på de elementer i teksten, der er væsentlige for at besvare eksamensopgaven in Engelsk B på HF fra den 30. maj 2013, hvor opgaveformuleringen lød:

Write a summary of “The Right Passengers”
Characterize Nadeem Riaz.
Comment on the conflict in lines 107-161 between Nadeem Riaz and Faisal, the young Pakistani.
Write a short essay (150-200 words) in which you discuss the culture clashes immigrants experience. Relate your essay to the short story.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “The Right Passengers” (2008)
Forfatter: Waqar Ahmed
Genre: Novelle

Waqar Ahmed er en amerikanske forfatter. Novellen "The Right Passengers" blev udgivet på internettet i 2008 og blev siden udvalgt til samlingen The Anthology Best of the Wbe 2009 af Dzanc Books.

Uddrag

Her kan du læse et kort uddrag af vores analysehjælp:

The author has chosen nighttime as the temporal setting for the novel. This choice is important because it offers the characters a chance to speak up in a way they would never do if the action were set during daytime. In the short story, the night functions as an element that gives freedom to the mind and to the body - this is one of the reasons why the people described in story get drunk and display a shameful behavior.