Indledning
Nowadays many people are pursuing their dreams and trying to succeed in life. But if there comes a bump on the road too many tend to give up and stop fighting for their dreams.
This topic is touched upon in the short story “Farida’s eyes” by Leila Aboulela. The theme in the narrative is among other education and struggles in life that can make you stop fighting for something.
Here we follow a girl in an all-girl school who is struggling with her education because of her nearsightedness.
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Uddrag
The narrator is observers the outside of the action. This makes the narrator a third person. Other than that, the narrator also knows what the characters is thinking and feeling.
Therefore, the narrator and point of view is also omniscient. The narrator and point of view has a big influence on the characters and how much you get to know in the story and also the atmosphere/setting in the story.
The story takes places in modern times at an all-girls school. (l. 24, p. 1): “[…] as not to block the blackboard for the other girls […]”
The main character, Farida, has problems with her eyesight, which one already gets an idea of in the first two lines where she could not read what was written on the blackboard. (ll. 1-2, p. 1):
“It started with the writing on the blackboard becoming hazy and crumbly, eventually just a tangle of white threads.”
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