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Literary Analysis Of The Red Line, By Charles Higson

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The red line The red line tells a story about different people trying to fit into what we today would call the modern society. The world we live in today is constantly changing and moving, whether you like it or not. Much like the ‘tube’, which ‘the red line’ forms is story around. Even the title is related to the tube. And it doesn’t really matter how hard you try, because there will be times where you cant keep up with the constantly moving society, which the tube is a symbol of – it doesn’t stop for you, if you don’t get off by yourself it does not care it just keeps moving and moving. And therefore you will find yourself in the middle of chaos. But there are people who are afraid of this society, who cant keep up with it, and therefore they don’t really fit into the society. In this story by Charles Higson we hear about three different people and their life changing stories, and how they all feel crippled by the society – crippled by London. The red line takes place in London. You can seemingly guess …show more content…

We know this because throughout the story the perspective switches between three different persons. And we get to know what they all think and believe. The importance of the switching between the persons is that we do not miss out on any details. The author wants us to make sure that there is a reason for everything happening in the story, and he wants us to know why the characters act the way they do. So one can say that the switching is used so we can identify ourselves with their actions. Now that would be a hard thing to do if we did not switch perspectives. Because then we would only be able see the insides of one mind, and that leads us to might not believe everything they say about different persons. But with this observative technique we get inside all the minds and the reasoning behind their

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