After writing the short story in November, our next task was to analyse our own literary work. The first page of my self analysis as follows:
THE NORWEGIAN BIBLE
an analysis
The writer begins her story—as classical authors of this genre—with an upbeat expression of the motivating power of the whole story in one sentence. "The discovery of the marvellous world of languages is the great experience of my life."
This idea runs through the story and motivates the climax of the story, an attempt to steal the bilingual Bible.
The plot is very simple, the writer (the story is written in the first person singular) finds a Bible, reads it, becomes attached to it, wants to steal it—but in the end she resists the temptation.
The story is only the superficial message of the story. The real message is hidden between the lines. The storyline is less important. What is important is the frame of mind of the writer, the way she narrates the story.
One of the characteristic features of the genre of the short story is that there must be a culminating point. The way to this point of this story is shown by explaining how important the bilingual Bible becomes for the writer. Although grandfathers hobbies, memories, religious childhood, and his love of languages are mirrored in the story, the description of all this foreshadows the climax.
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The next three or four pages of this analysis were lost. This loss too became a mirror. One of my professors at the Teachers Training College was introduced in this mirror. But I will write about this event later on!