Departure Time | Analysis

På disse sider finder du Studienets guide til analyse af novellen "Departure Time" af Tessa Green. I analysen tager vi udgangspunkt i et spørgsmål fra eksamenssættet i skriftlig Engelsk A med netadgang på STX fra 29. maj 2015. Du kan læse spørgsmålet herunder:

Write an analytical essay (800-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Tessa Green's short story “Departure Time”.

Part of your essay must focus on how the writer creates suspense and on cultural differences.

I analysen kigger vi på alle de væsentlige elementer, som du bør overveje, samt giver konkret hjælp til at besvare fokusspørgsmålene.

Præsentation af teksten

Title: “Departure Time”
Forfatter: Tessa Green, Storbrittanien
Udgivet i samlingen: Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller (2013)
Genre: Novelle

Uddrag

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Structure

The short story begins in media res (in the middle of events) introducing us to the setting and the main character, without revealing the intrigue of the story:

Patras station is tall and yellow with pale marble floors, more solid than the bus station and less crowded; it looks like a grown-up building that could save you. The woman in front of Samantha buys a First-Class ticket and it seems so cheap that she copies her. (ll. 1-3)

The exposition does not tell us who Samantha is or why she is leaving from Patras. However, the “building that could save you” (l. 2) functions as a foreshadowing element, announcing readers that the protagonist needs saving from something (her marriage).