Brown Girl in the Ring Literary Elements

Brown Girl in the Ring Literary Elements

Genre

Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy

Setting and Context

Post-apocalyptic Toronto, Canada

Narrator and Point of View

Brown Girl in the Ring is told from a third-person point of view.

Tone and Mood

The book is solemn, violent, depressing, and oppressive.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Ti-Jeanne is the book's protagonist; Rudy Shelton is the book's antagonist

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the book revolves around Ti-Jeanne and the rest of the residents of Toronto's struggles to survive and their attempts to deal with Rudy Shelton.

Climax

When Ti-Jeanne confronts Rudy in the CN Tower.

Foreshadowing

Tony's eventual murder is foreshadowed by his addiction, by threats from posse members, and by visions.

Understatement

The transformative effect the economic collapse and subsequent unrest had on the ecology and waterways near Toronto is understated throughout the book.

Allusions

The book alludes to the geography of Toronto and its surrounding areas, to psychology and sociology, to the history of the U.S. and Canada, and to religion.

Imagery

As Hopkinson starts to emphasize the effects of economic collapse, she begins to use more post-apocalyptic imagery.

Paradox

Ti-Jeanne is paralyzed by a drug that someone injects in her, but is able to move into an "astral" state.

Parallelism

The story of each of the residents of Toronto, most of whom are suffering, are paralleled throughout the book.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The City of Toronto is personified in the book and is given human-like characteristics.

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