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Indledning
In the short story written by Sarah Hall in 2005, the author starts out the story by addressing the reader as a second person narrator; (…) not long after you've moved here (…) (l. 5). Using this type of narration can create an immersive reading experience.

As the narrating style directly addresses the reader as “you”, it makes the reader an active participant in the story’s course and the narrative.

The second person narrator can create a sense of intimacy with the reader and the text, since it can make the reader feel involved in the text on a personal basis, due to the events being about them.

The excessive use of “you” can also make the reader feel as engaged in the story, due to them not being an observer but more an accomplice.

When Hall places the reader directly into the protagonists’ shoes, she’s helping the reader gain a sense of empathy for the story itself, along with the reader feeling a deeper connection to the reoccurring events that are happening in the story.

Hall does it in her short story when she writes, You've left the people who know you and have inured or injured you, on the lines 26-27.

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Uddrag
The emptiness combines with the feeling of peace; With this move you've gouged yourself clean, made yourself airy inside, gentle and pastel (ll. 43.44).

This shows, how in abusive situations, the victims can fathom the concept of it being wrong but won’t leave the toxic environment because it’s all they know and hold dear – the same is shown in the story.

The protagonist’s “redness” leaves her body, fights its way out, and the protagonist feels a hollow space in her, but does not mind due to the hollowness feeling like mercy, a mercy the red in her could’ve never granted her.

This is a metaphor for how moving on, is better than staying a place where a bad environment is the bottom line for survival.

The sentence, It has, for now, granted you some mercy, on line 45-46 also shows the protagonist doesn’t believe in the essence of peace.