“Mount Pleasant”
By Mary Louise Buxton, 2005
Childhood is the time when you experience a lot of new things – you play, go out and see things, experience something new and just having a good time - do whatever you want, even though your parents doesn’t always approve to go out and play and get dirty with your friends. When you are a child, you have a great imagination and a big fantasy. Some children tend to live in a fantasy world, where everything is about having fun, get dirty and just having a good time. We read about all of this, in the short story “Mount Pleasant”, that is written in the year of 2005 by Mary-Louise Buxton. The story is told by a little girl called Elizabeth, who lives with her family in their new house, called Mount Pleasant. We read about how Elizabeth likes to get dirty and play outside like the boys, even though her mother hates this. Beside this, we also read about how she thinks and sees things in their new house – so the whole story is a bit childless. In the following analysis I will take a closer look on, the theme, the main person in the short story and the narrator technique.

Like I said, the short story “Mount Pleasant” is told from Elizabeth’s perspective, so it is first person narrator. Through the story we read about everything from Elizabeth’s point of view and everything we know comes from her thoughts and what she is experiencing in the house and in her life. The language in the story is childish like I said before, because it’s told by Elizabeth herself. We know that Elizabeth isn’t older than 8 years old, because when she finds an old photograph of a boy, who is 9-10 years old. She says that she isn’t as old as he is, “He’s maybe nine or ten, not that much older than me”. She uses words like “Mammy”, “Daddy” and “babby”. She also finds some other words to different things like “our hands and chins are lickity-sticky”. It