Aske Peter Hiort-Lorenzen       3.j          Espergærde Gymnasium28. januar 2008 Mule Killers Lydia Peele’s “Mule Killers” is an achingly sad story of loss and acceptance. Actually it’s a strange little story told by a narrator, telling the story of his father courting his mother. The storyline runs astride with the tractors essentially putting mules out of work and, so, to death.The text “Mule Killers” is an epic short story. It actually has a multiple point of view, it changes between a first and a third person narrative. This is because the actual first person narrator tells a story in the story. Mostly it is a first person narrative, but in some sentences the story of the father “takes over” and it becomes a third person narrative. The narrator is omniscient and he is used as a messenger. His purpose is to tell his father’s sad story to the readers. Comments from the narrator appears a few places, for example “It doesn’t matter; I can imagine it”, which just makes us remember that it is the narrator telling
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about his father and grandfather, and not an unknown narrator. This makes the relations between the narrator and the readers more intimate and makes the narrator reliable. There is a chronological order throughout the story. Direct speech is used a couple of times, but does not dominate the story. Again it is simply the narrator telling his father’s moving story. Despite the narrators comments, he is quite objective in his storytelling, it doesn’t seem like he hates Eula or any of the characters, and it doesn’t seem like he pity his father that much. The story takes place at the ...

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