Mr. Know It All

Analysis:

1. Restrictions in a boat are confinement to a limited space. In the story another restriction was the fact that you were not able to choose who your cabin partner would be. Attitudes are inherent to those conditions. The narrator, in the first episode, where he meets with Mr. Kelada, shows prejudice even before meeting him personally, thus, he doesn’t appreciate much the fact that he must share a room with Mr. Kelada.

2. The presence of Mr. Kelada affects negatively upon other passengers. For example, we can mention Mr. Ramsay; to whom the presence of Mr. Kelada was not very welcome and with whom he had some biiter arguments. The narrator says that everybody knew Mr. Kelada and that he was involved in the majority of the boat’s activities, nevertheless, his nickname of Mr. Know-All reveals that he wasn’t very welcomed.

3. First, Mr. Kelada, the trip and the Ramseys are related because they share the same time and space for a determined period. In conduct Mr. Kelada is very similar to Mr. Ramsay: both are vain and arrogant. As for Mrs. Ramsay, we see that neither Mr. Kelada nor her, show prejudice towards anyone. The trip takes place in international waters, which are neutral; however it can not erase the social background of any of the characters.

4. In my opinion the use of the boat as a setting is very effective; the ship is allegorical to the world. Here the characters meet and reveal themselves and just like the world it is full of diversity, with interracial and cultural relationships.

5. The story’s point of view is first person, since it is through the narrator that sees everything and is a part of the plot that we know what happens.

6. We know little about the narrator in terms of physical appearance, the author didn’t reveal his name either. We get to know about him through his own comments and behavior towards the environment that surrounded him.

7. From the beginning, the narrator expresses his...