'The Sentry' af Tea Obreht, novelleanalyse

The story is told by the narrator, it’s a third person narrator. It’s a describing written story. I think the narrator is unreliable, because the dog does things that most dogs wont do. I think the story takes place somewhere in the Yugoslavia, the story takes place in the neighbour hood in the house, and at the neighbours house. The text does not describe a social environment, because Bojan lives with the housekeeper and she mostly keeps her to herself. The narrator herself lived in Yugoslavia back in the 1980’s and 1990’s the time where a lot of bad thing happend there. I think she might have brought some of her own experiences into the story.

The title is called The Sentry, it indicates that someone in the text might be in the military. The father is a Sentry in the military, and it made him suffer a lot from posttraumatic stress.

The protagonist is Bojan at 10 years, you follow him from when he was 10 until his was 11. Bojan is very exited about his father coming home with a dog, because never had a dog before. Bojan is even more exited about the dog, than seing his father coming home from war. Bojan plays the Piano, and he gets bullied a lot in school. He get out with his frustrations by shooting the dog, one day his father saw it because he stood in the door opening.