Elements

[PB]

What elements of the story did you like best? What did you find most interesting/intriguing?

[Caele]

One of the elements I DIDN'T like was that the narrator empathized even slightly with the lady and the master. She owed them nothing and they lived in comfort while she was torn from her family and forced into this horrible situation. She doesn't owe them sympathy. She doesn't have to try to understand their situation or put herself in their shoes.

[PB]

Caele wrote: "One of the elements I DIDN'T like was that the narrator empathized even slightly with the lady and the master. She owed them nothing and they lived in comfort while she was torn from her family and..."

She was trying SO HARD to totally hate them, but she's gotten so involved with that kind of life that it became a part of her, and I don't think she's even realizing she was doing it.

[PB]

The element I liked best was the way the narrative was constructed. Her past and her present blended together, and there was no way of knowing which she was going to talk about next. It's realistic because it suggests the subjectivity of the narrative, but also shows the reality of how a person thinks. When we tell a story, we don't think of it or retell it in a straight timeline, we randomly insert things here and there.