I denne study guide kan du få hjælp til at analysere novellen "The Shining Mountain" af Alison Fell, som findes i lærebogen Contexts, s. 18-22. Udover analysehjælpen kan du finde et summary af teksten samt idéer til fortolkning og perspektivering.
Præsentation af teksten
Titel: “The Shining Mountain” (1992)
Forfatter: Alison Fell
Genre: Short story
Alison Fell (f. 1944) er en skotsk digter og forfatter, som ofte skriver om sociopolitiske temaer, herunder især kvinders rolle i samfundet.
Fells novelle "The Shining Mountain" er skrevet i eventyrstil, men indeholder også mere realistiske elementer.
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Title
“The Shining Mountain” is another name for Pangma-La, a mountain which the main character is also named after: “I called you after a shining mountain so that you would stand tall and be proud, Pangma-La” (p. 18, ll. 5-6).
The fact that the girl and the mountain share the same name foreshadows the relationship dynamic between Pangma-La and her father: “And he pinned a picture of the Shining Mountain on her wall, and told her that one day they would climb it together” (p. 18, ll. 8-9). He is unable to separate his daughter from the goal of climbing the shining mountain, and forces his own ideals upon her. In turn, Pangma-La goes along with this because she wants her father’s approval: “So Pangma-La dried her tears and vowed never to be ordinary and disappoint him” (p. 19, ll. 1-2). She cannot see herself as worthy of her father’s respect unless she is as strong and proud as the mountain after which she is named.