ALEXANDER JOE
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To suit the genre of the short story, I chose to begin my story ‘in medias res’ in order to create a sense of urgency to the narrative, also ensuring that the narrator would seem mysterious to the reader prohibiting easy empathy. In ‘I Spy’, Graham Greene employs the use of the objective correlative to suggest that Charlie’s father leads a secretive life: ‘the front of the house was irregular’. Similarly in my story, things are not as they seem: we learn of ‘the ruined wording illuminat(ing) the pock-marked façade’.The ‘façade’ itself, and the fact that it is illuminated by ‘ruined wording’, both build symbolically upon the idea that what the narrator is telling us may not be true.
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