A CONSUMER’S REPORT
1. Who is being addressed? What pronoun is being used? Is this appropriate? The ‘manufacturer’ (i.e. God, Allah) but not parents. You is the pronoun, second person. It takes a lot for granted to be addressing God in such a manner.
2. Who is the narrator? What pronoun is being used? What is the effect? The symbolic everyman or woman. First person singular is used. The effect is to ask genuine questions and make personalized statements, yet with ironic humour given the ultimate vulnerability of the voice.
3. What age is the narrator? Gender? Ethnicity? Does it matter? The narrator is middle aged ‘I have about half left’, non specific gender and ethnicity so that applicability to every reader is high, ruling out no-one, including all.
4. Why is s/he asking questions and making statements?
S/he is asking questions of her/his maker because the time has come ‘I don’t know which to follow’ and ‘things are piling up so fast’ to make sense of his/her......
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