Opgavebeskrivelse
Write an analytical essay (600-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret the short story Tell Me (2006) by Zoë Sharp. Your essay must focus on the two main female characters.
Include the following analytical terms in your essay: narrator, setting and symbolism. Your essay must include references to the text.
Indledning
The short story “Tell Me”, written by Zöe Sharp from 2006, is about a crime where the crime scene investigator, Grace, whose work is to speak with the victim.
It turns out that the girl and Grace have more in common than first anticipated, and get along well.
It turns out at the end that the girl has been dead all along and therefore Grace has not spoken to anyone.
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Uddrag
The main characters of the story are crime scene investigator Grace and an unknown girl.
We are first presented to Grace McColl, whose job is to investigate and search for possible evidence at the place of the crime where the girl was killed.
As the girl is dead it is not possible to gather information about her, but she says “the dead always talk to me in the end” (p.43, ll. 39-40).
Grace was an only child and her mother “lavished praise and nurtured self-confidence in her” (p. 40, l. 39).
In her pre-adolescent, she was desperate to win approbation for her distant father and compensate for his absence.
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