1.Use the checklist of short story genre requirements to assess how well the story meets these. Give specific evidence in your response. The title of the short story is short and effective. It gives the reader an insight into what the story might be about. It tells the story of an event, which happens to be the father catching fish to bring back to his daughter. There are two different setting mentioned throughout the story; the beach and the man’s house. This makes it easier to keep up with the story. There is a restricted number of characters and their names are not mentioned so it is easy to remember who they are. The first part of the short story is mainly narration, and then towards the end, there is dialogue between the father and his daughter. This is also the climax of the story.
2.How well does the story connect with the reader? What emotions or thoughts does it elicit? How effectively does it use language to do this? Give evidence from the story in your response. The story is effective in grabbing the reader’s attention in the beginning. Of course, not everyone can relate to what the story is about, but it brings up many different emotions. The beginning is fairy poignant and is a flashback of the man’s past. It is effective because it gets the reader to connect to the man in the story and what he was been through in his life. ‘He finned upwards, heart thumping double-time. Cramp crimped one thigh.’ When the man is swimming in the ocean, the sentences are short and snappy, in order to get the point across that he is doing strenuous work.