JACOB SACKS-JONES
“This is your audition.”
In ‘Matchsticks’, an omniscient narrator opens the story and intersperses the narrative with symbolic descriptions, including the raindrop at the opening.The second voice is that of the thirteen- year-old boy, told through free indirect discourse; his thoughts are worked into the text through ruptured linearity which creates the sense of the boy’s meandering mind. Inspired by the stream of consciousness technique in Ulysses and comprised of delayed revelations, this story attempts to capture one moment in a boy’s life, examining it from the perspectives of the narrator and the boy himself.
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