Analyse af novellen 'Wabamun'

Family of 5, with 3 daughters, mum and dad.Father and 2 youngest daughters go ice fishing, while eldest daughter works as a babysitter and mum stays at home.The mother warns them that going out on the lake at this time of year is dangerous, but the father does not heed her advise and decides to go anyway.As the mother had warned, the circumstances willed it that the car crashed through the ice barrier on the lake and both the dad and youngest daughter ended up drowning, while the middle daughter, Dawn, survived as a result of her dad saving her.

AnalysisNarrator

First person narratorDawn – middle siblingApproximately 12 years old, seeing as she is older than Janie, who is said to be 9 in the story, and she still feels that a 5-dollar note is a significant amount of money.The story unfolds as a Stream of consciousness – We see the story taking place from Dawn’s personal mind’s point of view.The narration mode is a mixture of being descriptive and dialogue based, considering that there is a great emphasis on describing the details of the trip to and into the icy lake, while also bringing a lot of character dialogue into the story when it is taking place at the family house.