My Dark Life By Susan Kallpa

For many farmers, the social conflict that occurred in Peru changes their lives. In the short story autobiography of the novel “My Dark Life” the author, Sami Kallpa described with emotion and fear through her first person all the dramatic events that changed her future during the social conflict of the 1980s decade. The story has all the characteristics of a narrative writing, sequence, tone, and word choice.
The author begins with a description of each character mentioned: her father as a huge, tan, and muscular man, and her mom as a very fragile and skinny woman who always talked about spring. The idea is to let the reader know how their lives were before the dramatic events. Of all the modern theories that are embraced under the umbrella-term of critical theory, Narrative criticism is without hesitation the

Fisher defines narratives as “symbolic actions-words and deeds that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create and interpret them.”

The sequence of acts includes the following events: “It was approximately 2 O’clock, the sun was illuminating, the wind was brushing through our faces, and the flower smell gave us a delicate sensation. We all sat around the table, it was a tradition to eat together and make important decisions. The table looked amazing full of our produce, and in the middle the pig recently prepared, we were around the table in a way that my father was with my brothers on one side and me with my sister and mother on the other, we talked about our lives, relive the good memories, we laugh, drank had fun.
In the second sequence, a pause is created to present an event: “I remember clearly that at one moment of silence came, suddenly the dogs started barking and run, maybe they felt