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Jacky Kay. ... Jacky Kay uses lots of stylistic devises to underline certain facts and
to shape the short story in a more interesting and handsome way. ...
Submitted by TAMTAM on May 4, 2006
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Jackie Kay: “Why don’t you Stop talking?”
-Or: Nobody is simply perfect? -
“Why don’t you stop talking” can easily be characterized as a short story. The beginning is very strict without any introduction. We just fall into the plot. It is the same in the end. The plot reaches its climax and doesn’t even drop down. There is no further information or explanation.
The story is set in London, probably in today’s society. It is circling around one main character: a few hours in a black woman’s life, especially around her thoughts within this time. Her name is Thelma, as we get to know when she refers about her childhood (l. 115). Obviously Thelma is a woman with quite some overweight. During the whole text she calls herself and is called by others fat. She describes herself with “carrying a fat arse” (l. 164). Also she has trouble to walk up stairs to her flat. They “kill me every time” (l. 289).
Thelma turns out quite self confident on the first sight as she claims: “nine times out of ten I am right” (l. 33), for the reason that she doesn’t excuse herself very often. But I suppose she isn’t at all. Thelma’s overweight is subjected by herself throughout the whole story. Also her tongue “that gets me into a lot of trouble” (l. 56f) in combination with her talk activity. She complains about “the misfortune of having a tongue like mine” (l. 310f) over and over again.
The author presents Thelma as the first person narrator as whom she talks in a quite familiar but aggressive and colloquial tone about happenings in the past to the reader.
Jacky Kay uses lots of stylistic devises to underline certain facts and to shape the short story in a more interesting and handsome way. For example many colloquial expressions as mentioned already, a certain dialect used by Thelma, similes and symbols.
Thelma is different. She is black. But not enough she is fat. Still reason enough to cause attention in our...
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