Genre
Coming-of-age
Setting and Context
London, in the United Kingdom
Narrator and Point of View
Checkout 19 is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator.
Tone and Mood
Checkout 19 is inquisitive, mysterious, energetic, heartwarming, tense, grand, and hopeful.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The young woman is the protagonist of the novel; the circumstances the young woman finds herself in is the antagonist of the novel.
Major Conflict
The major conflict of the novel revolves around the young woman's interest in literature and her lack of time (and sometimes, mental energy) to deal with it.
Climax
When the unnamed narrator/young woman finally realizes what a blessing the Russian man was to her and her growing interest in literature.
Foreshadowing
The Russian man giving the unnamed narrator a copy of Beyond Good and Evil is foreshadowed early on in the novel.
Understatement
The woman's intelligence is initially understated in the novel.
Allusions
There are many allusions to Christianity, other religions, Roman, Greek, and Egyptian mythology, the history and geography of the United Kingdom (but particularly London), and other films and novels.
Imagery
As the unnamed narrator/young woman becomes more and more engrossed with her fictional world involving novels, more fantastical imagery becomes more and more common.
Paradox
The unnamed narrator/young woman aims to grow and become smarter in her life; however, all she does in her free time is read books.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The novel is used to refer to Beyond Good and Evil.
Personification
The books that the unnamed narrator reads are often personified.
