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"The Perfect Murder" by Renate Yates and "The Foal" by Mikhail Sholokhov - attempting to have the reader confront their own values & attitudes
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English Literature Essay - Prose Fiction Jessica Wilkey Writers of a short story not only place their own attitudes and values into a story, but also will often attempt to have the reader confront their own values and attitudes towards a specific subject. They do this through techniques such as language, setting, characterisation and point of view. These techniques position the reader to feel or think a certain way. Two such stories are The Perfect Murder written by Renate Yates and The Foal by Mikhail Sholokhov. The Perfect Murder is the story of a cat leaving her kittens to go out and kill a bird. However, the story has been written so that the reader is positioned to believe it is a woman leaving her children to go and kill a small child. The fact that it is actually a cat is not revealed until the end. This positions the reader to confront...
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