Københavns åbne gymnasium Engelsk B eksamen, 26 maj 2015

Analytical essay on: “Number Three”
Have we achieved the equality between men and women? Many of us would say we have achieved that long time ago and that women have same rights as men. Today the only difference would be the sex organ. But all that is happening mostly in the western world. There is still women repression but indirectly. Especially in countries like China. Western men will go to china because they have the opportunity to live the role of a man controlling over a woman.
The short story “Number Three” written by Anna Metcalfe, 2012, we follow a lady named Miss Coral at work and how she looses her job at end.
The story takes place in China, a school named number three middle school. It is a real story and takes place in a real world. We get to know more than one place but we are only in one psychical setting throughout the story. The social environment is very boring we only know what is happening in the school in the business. Therefor the setting creates a particular atmosphere, where it is all about money and business we do not really know what those people feel or think about. The story is not detailed we do not know a lot about Miss Coral and her life or what her thoughts about the work.
The characters appear gradually in the text. We only get to know three characters, the director at the school, Mr. James a teacher and miss Coral. Miss Coral is the main character in the text, we follow her through her day. Miss Coral works at middle school. Her looks are not described at all. But I guess she is a woman in the thirties and lonely. We do not hear about any partner or a husband and she share a room with other people, therefor I presuppose that she do not have any. She focuses on her work and nothing else, and it seems to be that she