''When I woke up the knife was still there"

When first reading this short story there was many different perspectives, and everyone in our class had their own meaning of the short story and how it came across. The first thing I picked up on when Don read the story out loud to all of us, was the narrative voice and how it caused a certain atmosphere. Using 'I' instead of 'them' makes the extract more personal to the reader. In a way, it let's the reader be that character and choose how the story will end, it gives them a chance to decide why the knife was there in the first place and whether the connotations were good or not. At the beginning, many of our class thought the knife connoted something bad e.g. a murder had happened. However, some people also thought the knife could be a metaphor or represent something good, or that someone. I came to the conclusion that there was no right or wrong answer to this short story and depending on how the story reaches out to you, depends on what your perspective would be.