Queenie Essay

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------------------------------------------------- Queenie This story takes place in the years after World War 1 in England. The main character in this short story is Queenie who is a little girl. Queenie is the youngest of the characters, and she is both a childish and adventurous girl; this is shown in the text by: ”I cried because I wanted to see more countries. Emily called me a little madam” The fact that she is adventurous is indicated by the way that she wants to experience all the other cultures in the exhibition and is curious to know more about other countries. She is excited by the exhibition, and she finds it interesting to see how life is in other places than just England. When Queenie meets the African man, she seems a little bit frightened at first, but then he smiles, shakes her hand and speaks very well English. Thereby Queenie realises that he is just like a normal person; he only comes from a different country with a different culture. This is shown in the text by: “And I shook an African man’s hand. It was warm and slightly sweaty like anyone else.” Queenie’s father is a butcher who owns a farm, and therefore he has several people working under him. Two of them are Emily and Graham, and there is a very clear line between staff and the parents, which is shown in the text by ex. “I can't be bothered with a fancy name like that – I'll call you Jim” whichh shows, that the staff is only there to work and don’t have anything to say at all. The opposite of Queenie is her parents. Her father is a bit sceptical about the exhibition and actually didn’t want to go, but went anyway because the mother thought it would be a good idea. Even though the mother wanted to go, she doesn’t seem very interested either; “Mother was not interested in the different woods of Burma or the big game of trophies of Malaya.” She also seems very closed towards other
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