Abduction is a short story by Shelagh Delaney. It’s about three siblings, where Ann is the main character. It is easy to state that Ann is the middle child, not only because she has a younger brother, which she takes care of, but also because of the narrator. The narrator uses first person and is omniscient, or he at least has a very good insight in the characters minds and thoughts. It is unsure if the narrator is the older sibling because of what the he tells us:
“Being only a few years older I remembered those days too but my recollections were a bit different (…) because their parents were shy his older brothers had taught him everything they knew.”
The narrator makes it sound like he is related in some way, but still isn’t in the family. In some way, I do think that he is the older brother. The narrator believes that Ann is a murderer.
“She didn't kill with guns, knives, blunt instruments or poison. She used money and
the power of her unwavering self-assurence that she was always right.”
The narrator clearly has a very strong hatred to Ann; you can see that in the first 12 lines were he talks about killing her. And when the narrator has a personal thing against the main character, it must affect the whole story and makes him unreliable.
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