Literary Analysis: Compass And Torch And Anil

Both ‘Compass and Torch’ and ‘Anil’ illustrates the theme of family relationships in numerous ways and we have seen a development of this idea in both short stories. The relationship of the families have been dominate through both pieces and Ridjal Noor and Elizabeth Baines have used different techniques to demonstrate this such as; symbolism, personification and emotive language. Both texts are written in narrative to give the reader multiple perspectives of the events taking place within the text and already from the two titles we can tell the two short stories are distinct but we can also interpret key points from the title. The title ‘Anil’ is the name of the character which indicates that this character is different and special from

The heat can be also be seen how uneasy it the atmosphere is between the characters (Anil, Amma and Appa). Noor Ridjal uses pathetic fallacy to reflect on the strength of the relationships and the setting. The word “hot” gives us an idea of how unbearable or difficult the relationship could be among the members of the

Baines does this by using the technique of body language; “The boy’s eyes are suddenly wide with fear and dismay…with the way the man’s shoulders slumped.” This suggests desperation of the boy as we can notice he is worried and upset his father is coming and he does not want the trip to be a failure. However it should be the adult role to make the son feel better and not the other way around. This reveals that the relationship is poor and there is a lack of communication and trust in this. This shows how much the boy is trying to put effort in to makes end meet but the father is not reaching out for