This passage was written by Elizabeth Bowen and is titled ‘A Day in the Dark'. It is a story told by a girl named Barbie. She tells a tale of when she was fifteen and visited the house of Miss Branderry to return a copy of Blackwood's and to request to borrow, for her father, a thistle cutter. She also takes some roses to apologise for glass stain and thumbmarks on the cover of the magazine. The passage mainly focuses on Barbie and her view on the events. But the passage also looks into the relationships between the Barbie and her uncle, and Miss Branderry and her niece.

The first paragraph sets the scene and creates an atmospire for the story. The author immediately begins by saying ‘It was July, a sunless warm afternoon, dead still.' She also talks of ‘idlers' who of coarse are people who have nothing to do, because it is to hot. And also she uses words like ‘heavy'. We get this sense of oppression. Sound seems to be a predominant feature in the opening paragraph. For the......

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Title: A Day In The Dark
Approximate Word Count: 557
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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