Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
Sweden, present time
Narrator and Point of View
Elsa
Tone and Mood
Simplistic, childish
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Elsa and grandmother | Antagonist: None
Major Conflict
Elsa has to speak and come into contact with people she was afraid of and held prejudices towards.
Climax
Elsa learns the back story of the people she meets.
Foreshadowing
Grandmother's death was foreshadowed by her stories.
Understatement
Grandmother's death was understated, as she passed away peacefully without anyone taking much notice. However, her death changed many lives.
Allusions
The reader might have allusions to Phaedrus: "Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."
Imagery
The image of Elsa listening to the stories of the people around her, including her grandmother and her friends, is important. If she hadn't taken her time to listen to them, she wouldn't have known about what they had gone through.
Paradox
"They are scary" is a paradox Elsa has to go through and destory, as she learns the reasons behind why people behave the way they do.
Parallelism
There is a parallel line between grandmother and Elsa, as Elsa follows her life.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The letters Elsa gives to grandmother's friends are personified in each their own way.
