Observation

Reading Times: The Autobiography of Pele by: Pele  and short stories10/10- 35 min. 10/11- 45 min. 10/12- 30 min. 10/13- 20 min. 10/14- 20 min. pp. intro plus 1-25 (total of 35 pages)

     In To Da-duh, In Memoriam, you can't go a paragraph without seeing some sort of characterization. There is always at least 1 example of both direct and indirect on the first page. In the third sentence of the story, the narrator says "...being only nine years of age." That is the first blatant characterization, and for a while, you see characterization every third sentence at a minimum. While I was annotating this story, I felt like I was highlighting the whole story. I was amazed at how much characterization there was in this story.
     This observation definitely matters. This observation is key to helping not just myself, but anyone to understand the story. If you are able to understand all of the direct and indirect characterization, the story is much easier to read. With the characterization scattered throughout the book, you can relate to the characters and be able to understand the culture in Barbados. If you just read this story through, then you would think it's some crazy story about two women and how one dies. This is, in my opinion, the most important observation that you could have in this interesting short story.