Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Literary Elements

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction

Setting and Context

Set between the 1990s and 2000s in the United States of America.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Humorous, remorseful, compassionate

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is Carlotta, and the antagonists are the prison warders and inmates.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is between Carlotta and the prison authorities. Instead of hearing Carlotta's pleas to be put in the right prison, they put her in the male's prison.

Climax

The climax comes when Carlotta is released from prison.

Foreshadowing

The ignorance of the prison authorities foreshadows Carlotta's sexual abuse.

Understatement

The prison authorities understate sexual abuse that takes place inside the cells.

Allusions

The story alludes to Shakespeare.

Imagery

The sudden change in Noreen’s color when the judge renders a verdict against Carlotta shows her dissatisfaction. The narrator says, “She turned red and leapt up to tell epithets. She almost to the color they sued to dye them pistachio nuts.” Noreen expected the judge to give Carlotta a life sentence, but she was only jailed for 22 years

Paradox

The main irony is that the prison officers who are supposed to protect Carlotta from sexual intruders are the ones raping her.

Parallelism

n/a

Metonymy and Synecdoche

n/a

Personification

Robots are personified when the author says that they can listen and follow instructions.

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