Summary: The Shining Mountain, by Alison Fell, is a short story about a young girl called Pangma-La. Pangma-La is a Scottish girl, who lives with her father and mother. Her father is a respected and famous mountain climber. Pangma-La has her unusually name after a mountain, called The Shining Mountain, her father chose her name, because of his love to mountain climbing. Pangma-La’s father has high expectations of his daughter, and she does not want to disappoint him, because of that she starts practicing climbing, so she will not let her father down. Pangma-La and her father ends up going to the shining mountain with the goal to reach top.
The Shining Mountain – short story by Alison Fell, 1986 | Essay
Everyone has tried that there is one who has expectations of one. When that happens, one feels a pressure to do the best that one can do, even if one does not want to. In Alison Fell’s short story, The Shining Mountain, with the themes growing up and expectations, the reader meets a girl whom while growing up has a lot of expectations from her father.
The story is told from the point of view of a third-person omniscient narrator, the narrator tells the story and is not included in the plot. The narrator is objective and has no attitude towards the story but do know Pangma-La’s mental state and thoughts. This make the reader see the story from more than one perspective and makes this short story more objective than subjective from the narrators’ side. It also causes the reader to form more thoughts about the story, because of the multiple views.
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