Analyse af Maile Meloys novelle 'Red from Green'

Growing up is a hard thing especially in the teenagers period, you don’t know how you shall act in the start, and when you become older you think too much about the way you act. The thing growing up is an important part of the short story “Red from Green”.

The narrator in this story is a third person narrator, and the narrators focus is on the protagonist in the short story Sam. The narrator’s role is to observe. Since it’s an observing narrator it’s hard to get the whole picture of the relationship between Sam and her father.

Sam is a 15 years old teenager from Montana, she shall start her sophomore year. Sam’s mother died when she was younger, this has affected her relationship to her father. Sam is most described by her actions, but the way she acts makes her a round character. Sam isn’t content with herself that can you see here. “She did, and hit it, and there was nothing left but a stub of branch. “Hit the branch,” Layton said. And she did. She’d never been so proud of anything.” This maybe shows that she hasn’t tried so many wild things before. After all the time with Layton Sam become more independent, because he didn’t looked at her as a kid, but more like a woman. After she began thinking like a woman, the choice about which boarding school she should go to was a bit easier.