Smile

Dette er Studienets analysehjælp til novellen "Smile" af Roddy Doyle. Vi giver dig inputs og vejledning til alle de dele i novellen, som det vil være relevant at inddrage i din egen analyse. Novellen her har været udgangspunkt for et eksamensspørgsmål til skriftlig Engelsk A på STX fra den 24. maj 2017, hvor opgaveformuleringen lyder som følger:

Write an analytical essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Roddy Doyle’s short story “Smile”.

Part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and on the narrator’s development.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Smile” (2016)
Forfatter: Roddy Doyle
Udgivet i: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
Genre: Novelle

Roddy Doyle (f. 1958) er en irsk forfatter og manuskriptforfatter. Adskillige af hans fiktive værker er blevet filmatiseret, og han har vundet forskellige nationale priser for sin litteratur.

Uddrag

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Title

The title of the story, “Smile”, is intriguing at first because it does not reveal much about the plot; we do not know who smiles, at whom, or why. Reading the story reveals that the title is symbolic for most of the plot because it is the narrator’s smile at his teacher Brother Murphy that sets off a chain of events which lead to the narrator being bullied and even to the teacher’s probable suicide at the end: “And this violent man with the Desperate Dan head liked me. I knew this – everybody knew this – because of something he’d said when I was thirteen, in first year. – Victor Forde, I can never resist your smile.” (ll. 16-18)

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