Graduation is a time of celebration. It’s a day when you honor all the years you’ve dedicated to studying and striving for excellence. However, graduation and youth in general is not enjoyable for everyone. Especially when parents fail to provide the emotional support a teenager may need. T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “She’s the bomb” from 2017 exemplifies what thoughts and feelings a person might experience during the last stages of adolescence whilst at the same time dealing with concerning mental health issues.
The text is written with a third person omniscient point of view. “Her mother, since as long as she could remember, was always harping on her” (p. 2, l. 46). The reader can see that it is third person because the word “her” is used in the end of the sentence. By using this type of narrator, the reader is allowed into the thoughts and feelings of the main character, Hailey Phegler. However, whilst still reading it as a third person, rather than seeing everything with the eyes of the main character.
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