First Confession Literary Elements

First Confession Literary Elements

Genre

Novel

Setting and Context

Written in the context of coming of age, inequality, race and crime.

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Violent, rebellious, angry, fascinating

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist of the story is Andrea Durcal.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is that Andrea becomes a spoiled child with no respect to children coming from low-income families. Andrea is rude, violent and arrogant because she comes from a wealthy family.

Climax

The climax comes when Andrea and her cousin, Victor, expose a prostitute woman who is later raped and murdered. The actions of these kids are unacceptable, and they become the outcasts of society because no one wants to be associated with them.

Foreshadowing

The death of the woman who owns a shop is foreshadowed by Andrea and Victor’s ignorance about poverty.

Understatement

Poverty is understated. Even though Andrea is a spoiled rich girl, she later encounters the reality of abject poverty when she visits the local townspeople.

Allusions

The story alludes to the disparities between the rich and the poor.

Imagery

The imagery of poverty aids readers to see what drives the woman shopkeeper into prostitution. Similarly, the imagery plays a role in helping readers to comprehend the extent of poverty the townspeople are subjected to.

Paradox

The main paradox is that Andrea is ignorant, and she thinks that poor people live in miserable conditions by choice.

Parallelism

The death of Victor is parallel to Andrea’s decision to own up for the woman’s murder.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Poverty is personified as humiliating.

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