Concetti Chiave
- The story begins with a man feeling alone and anxious while waiting for a taxi, which prompts him to check his wallet for safety and start pacing.
- The man becomes fearful of the taxi driver, suspecting an attack, especially when noticing the driver's hand on an iron tool, creating tension.
- The narrative uses a restricted third-person perspective, presenting events from the man's viewpoint, with a clear structure from complication to resolution.
- The ending isn't surprising but encourages readers to consider the driver's perspective, challenging assumptions about strangers at night.
- The story explores themes of fear and empathy, highlighting the mutual apprehension between passengers and drivers during nighttime encounters.
Journey by Night
1. At the beginning of the story the man feels alone and, as the time is passing, he gets bored of waiting for a taxi, so he starts to whistle. He is also frightened than someone could steal him, so he checks to have his wallet with him and begins to walk up and down.
2. The man is afraid that the driver could attack him during the trip, especially when he notices that he has a hand on an iron tool. We have a climax in the lines 39-43, when we don’t know whether the driver is going to stop.
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In my opinion, even though the beginning is in medias res because it starts with a ‘he’ and we don’t know who the man is, we have a quite traditional description of the setting, while the man is presented only from his feelings and his movements. The point of the story when the man is in the car is similar to the ‘complication’ because it’s the events that starts the story. Then we have a climax in the lines 39-43, when we don’t know whether the driver is going to stop. At the end we have the resolution of the story, whose conclusion is closed. Story and plot coincide and we have a restricted third-person narrator, since he enters the consciousness of one character, the man and everything that happens in the story comes to us from his perspective.4. This story hasn’t got a really surprising ending. However we are induced to think that the driver might be a criminal. Maybe the author wanted us to start to think from another point of view and to get in other people’s shoes.
5. If I were a driver I don’t think I would stop for a passenger at night because I would be afraid to meet an ill-intentioned man. Maybe if he stepped in the middle of the street and held up his hand, like in this story, I would stop because there could be an emergency. In fact, on the other hand, you have to think that walking alone in the dark can be even more frightening than driving.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il tema principale della storia "Journey by Night"?
- Come viene presentato il climax della storia?
- Qual è la struttura narrativa della storia?
Il tema principale è la paura e l'ansia del protagonista mentre aspetta un taxi di notte, temendo di essere derubato o attaccato durante il viaggio.
Il climax si verifica nelle righe 39-43, quando il protagonista è incerto se l'autista fermerà l'auto, aumentando la tensione e il senso di pericolo.
La storia inizia in medias res con una descrizione tradizionale dell'ambientazione, seguita da una complicazione quando l'uomo è in macchina, culminando in un climax e una risoluzione chiusa, narrata in terza persona ristretta dal punto di vista del protagonista.
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