Shes the Bomb | Analysis | Engelsk

Indledning
Graduation, the end of an era. Where a chapter closes and a new one opens. A lot of people know what it’s like to graduate, whether it’s from college or even high school.

We know the proud feeling of hearing your name being called, walking up to the podium, shaking the principal's hand, and receiving the diploma in your hand.

There is no better feeling than looking at all your classmates, fellow students and teachers, seeing how much you have accomplished.

You get the feeling that all of your hard work and dedication for school was all worth it, because you can become something big now.

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Uddrag
The chronological order of the short story is interrupted, as a result of the narrator keeps taking us readers back in time to the past events in Hailey's life, this is also called a flashback, we see this on (p. 3, l. 97-98)

“Thanksgiving break had been the worst, till now, anyway, going home and having to act as if everything was okay and listen to her mother go on about how proud she was of her”

In the quote above, we read about how Hailey dislikes going home and celebrating thanksgiving with her mother. In this quote the narrator has taken us back to one of Hailey´s past events in her life.

If we fast forward to the end of the short story, do we read about how our main character is working as a sales clerk at Nordstrom Rack in Poughquasic Falls. At this point in the story, do we as readers figure out the whole story was a flashback, (p. 4, l. 141-142 ).

The language in the short story is informal. The only time we experience the language is informal is when the text takes form as text-messages.

There is a big difference between the informal text-messages, between the two teenagers using everyday language, where there is a dialogue played out. Here we see there are used words such as “I’m” (p. 1, l. 31), and “I’d” (p. 2, l. 37), these words are also called contractions.

Furthermore are there also used contractions in the text, where there has been a use of standard language. We find the contractions on (p. 2, l. 48) “ You’re a procrastinator.

All right, guilty as charged, but then who isn’t?” In the quote above do we find contractions such as “you’re”, and “isn’t”. The effect of using informal language is to impersonate the way young people communicate.