The texts Abduction by Delaney and Adlers Psychoanalytical Ideas on Development by Wehr. The two stories each represent different genres with different languages and ways of explaining cases and ideas.
Abduction
What makes you turn out the way you do? What are the factors that are deciding a person’s life? We have for some time known about the genetics role in life – you can say they are the foundation of how a person is going to turn out. However, genetics aren’t the only thing that shapes a person as he or she grows up - because as I said before genetics are only the bottom of the cake and we need the top to have a finished cake – another thing is upbringing, how a person is raised. This is the subject in the short story “abduction”.
Abduction is about the relationship between three siblings; the main character Ann, her younger brother and her older sibling whose gender we don’t know. The story begins in medias res with “I wanted to do her in” which gives the reader an impression of Ann, who is the main character, about whom this is said. The narrator, who is Ann’s older sibling, gives a bad impression of Ann. He blames her and calls her “a killer”. Opposite to this subjective beginning is the rest of the story written without further personal comments on Ann’s behavior. This makes the narrator less visible to the reader.
“A showpiece product of the State Educational System” this is said about Ann which make her seem like the perfect daughter but at the same time “likes a lot of people”. The narrator and Ann have also a fundamental difference in opinions and views as he or she comments “I remembered those days too but my recollections were a bit different”. In the start the people seem normal but the reader is quickly introduced to what seems to be of two minds about family and children. “She loved children” yet she gets herself sterilized and even thinks it’s sensible. This is not the only strange about Ann. We also see that her relationship with her family is bizarre “When the best job opportunity, working in a London children’s hospital, came along” and she leaves without turning around. It seems like Ann doesn’t understand her family’s emotions – her mother is anxious and wants to help Ann but Ann just brushes her aside. Another example is when Ann takes her younger sibling away and just laughs at her parents’ shock. Ann doesn’t understand the consequences for her parents and brother.
