FICTION Comment by Rachel D Heicher: Give the essay a more specific title.
Since the publication of this book, some people have expressed that the story was meant to promote the ill vice of euthanasia. However, when one closely understands the plot of the story, one may draw the theme of deep friendship and mercy from it. The plot of the story systematically shows how the systematic chain of events produced an excellent provocation of the readers’ feelings and attention for the story. Comment by Rachel D Heicher: What book? You have to introduce your topic before you can refer back to it and have the reader understand you.
The plot of the story has a strong beginning and a climax at the end. The writer carefully explains the events that kick start the story. In the first sceene, we meet Pamela who has been given a nickname Pamelump and the writer shows the mother’s discord for the word (12). The reader is introduced to Pamelump and her rules which gets the reader to wanting to more about these rules and why she is special. The story follows a sequence of events which brings me to my claim that the plot is excellent. Step by step the reader reveals the status of Pamelump and why she is special; that is she does not have hands and legs (13). The writer uses a chain of events which makes it opposite of an episodic plot. At the end, the writer invokes our thinking to concluding that the best friend Wendy actually carried on with the mercy killing of her friend. (25). As one can read through the story the events are clear and they all point to the climax. Comment by Rachel D Heicher: Keep yourself out of the essay. Maintain third person point of view for a more formal, academic tone.
The plot of the story also triggers emotions of both the protagonist and the antagonist during when they are conflicting or even expressing themselves. This can be evidenced when Pamelump and Wendy gets in a heated argument about Wendy’s father imprisonment (15). The writer invokes so much emotions at this point which leaves the reader glued to the book. Moreover, the plot achieves at changing the understanding we have of euthanasia. As the story ends, the persona says that “they would talk of murder and affliction and what is now called euthanasia; they would not talk about the terrible loneliness, about my lack of power...” (26). The words the writer chooses trigger so much thought and emotions of the reader such that the perception one had concerning the subject matter somehow changes.
The plausibility of the events is up to point. The writer triggers our imagination of the life of Pamela. For instance, she decides to quit going to the shops because people would stare her and pity her (14). These events are believable because we face the same situations in life. We decide to avoid people who are always questioning our physical characteristics and it is only natural that we will avoid these places. The writer achieves at making the story more reliable to the life of a normal person. The more the plot relates the more the reader is intrigued as they can relate what the write is trying to portray in the plot.
The plot of a story should consist of themes that get the reader glued to. When a writer drafts a story they always ensure that they have the themes that they want the reader to follow and pay attention to. A reader can easily get bored from reading a story that has no concrete and supporting themes. In this story, the reader achieves at portraying the themes that the reader would be interested in. For instance, the story reveals the theme of true friendship and how love and friendship can get us into compromising so much things. From the story, the theme of friendship is evident from the love Pamelump and Wendy share, to a point of Pamelump asking her only best friend to get her sleeping pills that are meant to kill her, (24). As much as Wendy is scared to give them to her, she understands the loneliness that her best friend is going through and thus decides to give them to her (25).
In addition, the writer fuses different themes in the plot which are intended to make the story seem more convincing and real. For instance, as discussed earlier friendship is quite evidence but when we read deeply there is also the theme of conflict that the writer portrays in the story. For instance, Pamelump and her mother conflict over the swimming decision (21), when Wendy refuses to give Pamelump sleeping drugs they conflict which leaves Pamelump with no choice but to try get them herself (24). These themes are in sync with the story and makes the plot of the story more dramatic and less episodic.
In conclusion, the plot of the story played a very key role in my grasping of the story. The story, as much is it is a short one, the events were set at a great pace, and it was not rushed. The events are systematic and the writer used elements of surprise and the word diction was one to get me glued throughout the reading. Comment by Rachel D Heicher: Sam, you’ve got a strong essay here that really only needs some careful editing. Well done, overall.
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