No Escape Oral Presentation

In the book, "Mee Street Chronicles: Straight up Stories of a Black Woman’s Life" by Frankie Lennon, she uses many ways of describing characters in her chapters. When reading part one of her book, "No Escape", she mainly focuses on the narrator. Characters may be analyzed in action, behavior, dialogue, thoughts, look, or dress.

In "No Escape", the narrator, which is Frankie, is faced with her fear of the dark; she is facing a challenge by herself. She wakes up one night and calls out to her parents but there was no response so she goes to look for them in her dark house. She was scared, as she described in pg 17 “The rolling thunder sends...another inch.” At this point she thinks she sees ghosts and thinks that they are going to eat her. By the way Frankie was thinking you can tell that the narrator is very imaginative to think up of ghost. For example in pg 22 “Dracula’s Wings?” this quote describes one of imaginary monsters. Also by her behavior, you can tell that Frankie is not brave because she is not willing to keep going with finding her parents. Frankie then calls out to her parents and there is still no response leading her to think that the monsters have eaten her parents. She becomes sad and starts crying. By her behavior, we can analyze that Frankie needs a lot of growing up.

Through out "No Escape", Frankie keeps getting more thoughts in her head but this time she calls it her god fairy, it is what advises her to keep going. The narrator chooses to keep going in her quest to look for her parents. She then gets the courage to walk through the dark kitchen. Frankie does this because she is being compared to Gretel, one who is brave and courageous, as it is described in page 17 “Be like Gretel!”As I have read the chapter I analyzed the narrator, I came to a conclusion that she is a round character who is 3-deminsional with depth and complexity because she changes through out the end of the chapter. She is also a dynamic character because she grows up a lot considering the fact that she was only three years old when this occurred.