"Tell Me" By Sue Rankin

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Tell me by Sue Rankin Childhood is one of the most important phases in life, to prepare and form it in a proper or appropriate way and by social heritage and the society, affect the person you could become. Therefore it’s very important to have people around you who support you and make you feel cherished and respected, even if it’s your parents, foster parents or friends. Furthermore it’s important to mix with a healthy environment and not be influenced by some bad people around you. The story is taking place at a crime scene at a unknown place. The text has an implicit third person narrator, which is aware of everything that happens. It’s a combined point of view, which switches between Grace McColl and the girl by a dialog. By that, the author pursues the goal of a big amount of information, which indicates the environment and characterize the persons without an exact description. In the text “Tell Me” the girl character or the dead body was dealing with the lack of care from her parents. Her father left her when she was young and her mother lost herself in the bottle of pills and booze. Therefore became the mother a prostitute to pay the rent and feed the family. Besides the lack of care from her parents, she had a boyfriend which she probably thought cared about her and the love to him made her completely blind to see his evil sides. That is why she apparently became a prostitute, to earn money to help her “big love”. All those points affected her incredibly much and also had some consequences, such as being a prostitute, actually trying to commit suicide and in the end the death as cause. It also seems as if the girl were living in an unhealthy environment, where parents lack of care and alcoholism were normal or at least common “Your father left you when you were young … Your mother blamed you and lost herself in the bottle – pills or booze, or

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