Getting Somewhere
  1. Getting Somewhere
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Study questions

Here are some study question to help you get started with your analysis of the short story “Getting Somewhere” by Susan Isaacs.

Indhold

Structure

  • What characterizes the chronology of the short story’s structure?
  • What does the ending tell us about Karen and her meeting with the refugees 15 years before?

Main character

  • How can we see that Karen belongs to a privileged background?
  • In what ways does she show empathy towards the refugees?

Setting

  • Why is the story set in Florida, USA? What characterizes this physical setting?
  • What characterizes the story’s social setting?

Narrator

  • How does it influence the story that we have a first-person narrator? 
  • What makes Karen’s style of narration stream of consciousness?

Language

  • Is the language in the story generall
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