Analyse af 'She's the Bomb' og ungdomspres

Being a young pressed student is a topic that occurs frequently in today's debates. The feeling of not being good enough and feeling pressured to choose one particular education because it is the most socially popular education has become a problem that takes place all the time. In the short story: She's the Bomb, written in 2017, T. Coraghessan Boyle manages to elucidate the subject of feeling pressured to the extreme due to one's parents and social contexts.

The first passage of the text already indicates what will happen later in the story. Boyle uses foreshadowing to catch the readers interest by giving an obviously hint about what will happen later in the short story. Besides Boyle using foreshadowing, the first passage is also established as a text message. The fact that Boyle has set up the first part as a text message also makes it an eye catcher which intend that Boyle already in the first six sentences successfully manages to catch the readers interest. Not only does the text messages appear as an eye catcher it also makes the story personal. The exchange of text messages works as some kind of frame and makes the reader identify with the character “Pls get me out of here!” “Wish I Could”(ll.29-30). The reader is not aware of who the protagonist is writing messages with. There is no specific recipient. It makes the reader reflect on who the recipient really is. You could argue that the recipient is actually herself and the text message exchange works as an internal monologue, because the reader are invited into the main character’s head in which we are getting an expression of the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings. “She’s nobody “So why mention her?” “I dont know maybe b/c i’m nobody too” “Dont say that “I’m saying it” (ll. 172-176).