Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"Elephant"
- Plot
- Symbols
- Elephant
- symbolic of
leadership,
stability and
loyalty
- Symbolic of the narrator and
what the family expects in him
- money
- Relationships with his family
- dream one
- Flash back to
when he was
younger and his
father was alive
- Family could depend
on the father
- Characters
- Narrator
- Alcoholic but no
longer drinking
- Simbolyim
for his
breaking
point
- Has a
daughter
- Lives with a
bum and he is
unhappy about
it
- Lets go of
this situation
because he
can´t do
anything
about it
- Foreshadowing
because at the
end we realize
how much he
has let go
- His goal
in life is
to help
his family
- "I won´t let you
down"
- Lives
alone
- sits down in
his chair
after work
- Families
dependency cures
narrators
loneliness
- Gets lazier
and needier
as the story
advances
- first person
- Stream of
consiousness