The main character, Ayah, was also introduced in the orientation. The rising action began in the second paragraph of the story with Ayah's flashback to her own childhood. The rising action contained all of the background information about her son Jimmie's death and the visit from the white doctors who came for her children. Here, the short story reached its climax. The climax, which consisted of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth paragraphs, occurred when Ayah's children, Danny and Ella, were taken from her. During this climax, Ayah's feelings began to shift. Prior to losing her two children, her feelings toward the white people were that of sadness and fear. After the white doctors and government officials took her children from her, Ayah's feelings became that of hatred and anger. Her fear of white people gave way to her anger for what they had done to her and her family. She also began to hate her husband, who she blamed for the entire situation because he had taught her how to write her name in English. The resolution began with paragraph thirteen and ran to the end of the short story. During the resolution, Ayah discovered that her own feelings were changing towards the white people. She realized that she was no longer afraid of them. Instead, she was angry at them. Ayah also realized that the white people had begun to fear her in the way that she had once feared them. The events of the story were not presented in sequential or chronological order. The story began when Ayah was an old woman and presented several flashbacks. However, the flashbacks were presented in chronological order as Ayah reflected on how she had lost her three children.
The story was presented through the third person limited point of view. The narrator knew what Ayah was thinking and feeling but did not know what any of the other characters were thinking or feeling. The narrator also provided detailed descriptions of the setting and the events which took place.
Even before the real establishment of the European Central Bank, economists have discussed the role and success of central banks in devising and implementing uniform and relevant monetary policies. Interest in the subject was reinvigorated in the late 1990s when the European Central Bank (ECB) was ...
