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  • Karakter: 10 tal
  • Ord: 944

Indholdsfortegnelse
Comprehension
- What Exactly Do We Learn About the Circumstances Surrounding Nina’s Injury?
- What Does the Reader Learn About Nina’s Relationship with Brendan?

Analysis - Narrative Technique
- What Kind of Narrator Tells the Story and from Whose Point of View Is the Story Told?

Analysis - Main Character

Analysis - the Tone
- How Do the Nuns Treat the Patients in the Hospital?

Interpretation - Themes
- What Seem to Be Some of the Central Themes in the Story?

Interpretation - Symbolism
- What Is Special About the Main Character’s Encounter with the Radiographer in the Last Part of the Story? and How Is It Symbolic That It Is a Radiographer - I.e. Someone Whose Job It Is Literally to See Through People - Who Exposes Nina to an X-Ray?

Interpretation - the Title

Interpretation - the Ending

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Uddrag
What exactly do we learn about the circumstances surrounding Nina’s injury?
Nina was cold, undernourished, too lightly clad and gets beaten up every so often.

She was abused of her husband Brendan, who had hit her left arm for half an hour; it wasn’t an accident.


What does the reader learn about Nina’s relationship with Brendan?
Nina’s relationship to Brendan is very toxic and violently, and she is being abused and gets beaten up every so often (ll.12).

Brendan had been drinking all afternoon; “he was in that sodden destructive mood that came on him every Tuesday”.

We learn that Nina’s husband, Brendan, is unemployed and that he get drunk on dole day, i.e. the days when he collects his social benefits from the government.

Perhaps Brendan is reminded of his situation on dole day, which explains why he gets so angry and abusive beyond Nina. This is being described at line 29-30.

Evidently, Brendan is in the habit of physically abusing (beating up) his wife. In fact, three months earlier she was in the hospital with a broken nose.

Clearly, Nina is very worried about people finding out that she is the victim of domestic abuse (hustruvold). When she “laughs” and “ignores” (l.78), it is clearly in an attempt to hide what is happening.