Me and Mr. Harry

Her kan du finde hjælp til dit arbejde med novellen "Me and Mr. Harry" af Batya Swift Yasgur. Vores guide hjælper dig med at lave en grundig analyse, hvor du kommer omkring alle de vigtigste områder. Samtidig får du også hjælp til at fortolke teksten i forhold til temaer og budskab, og nogle afsluttende råd om perspektivering.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Me and Mr. Harry” (1994)
Forfatter: Batya Swift Yasgur
Genre: Novelle

Batya Swift Yasgur er freelanceforfatter og skriver både skønlitteratur og faglitteratur. Hendes mest berømte bog hedder Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom (2002).

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Title

The short story’s title is very straightforward and it sums up the event that is explored in the story: a young girl’s relationship with an older man.

Although there is a big age difference between the two, the young girl – who is also the narrator – does not realize that Mr. Harry is a pedophile who was abusing her. Instead, she keeps seeing Mr. Harry as the center of her universe and as the sole adult figure who helped her, cared about her, and made her feel special and appreciated: “I almost laugh. What we had, Mr. Harry and me, was just between the two of us. He wouldn’t do this with anyone else, ‘cause no one is special like me.” (ll. 84-85).