Analyse af novellen 'The Whaler'

In the month of May 2001 we experienced the first space-tourist.

The 60 year old American many-millionaire Dennis Tito sad quietly and calm smiling to the television camera. In the Russian space capsule, when the rocket was launched. By paying twenty million dollars he got an incredible impressive view of our planet and six days stay in the international space station.

In spite of that NASA protested violently, the Russians agreed to the project, because the great amount of money came in handy, and the wish is, that the interest for space tourism will rise – why, there is many rich people.

Section 1

The short story The Whaler is story about a boy and his imagination of what he thinks is a heroic whaler. The story takes place in a village in Ireland. We don’t exactly get to where in Ireland, but when the narrator tells us about the whaler, he says that the whaler left their town-land as a boy. We don’t get to know much more about the place.

There is not much in the short story, which can tell us when it takes place. The narrator tells us about his imaginations of the whaler. He describes in a poetic way, how he imagines the whaler hunting whales. From the way he thinks it is done, it is imaginable that the story takes place early in the 20th century. In the end we see Eileen Early going out to the spring to fetch water. And the fact that we two times in the story hear about byres tells us the same. That it takes place early in the last century.