Eve Ensler hit it on the nose with this one. I like how she starts the first line:

Right from the beginning Ensler gets to the main point of not only this particular story but the whole book. Her stating that it can apply to anybody expands your horizon and allows us to interpret the story and book in any way that it best correlates to you (the reader).

I also, love the way the narrator talks in third person all the way until the end of the story. She makes it broad yet visible of how her situation happened. The only time the narrator went into first person was the beginning and the end. I feel like Ensler did this because she wants the readers to be able to fill in their own blanks in the middle. Thus, make it correlate to their situation while still understanding the narrator’s situation. She even comes up with a scenario to put yourself in:


Another thing that Ensler uses well in this story is imagery. I love her use of imagery! Out of all the short stories/monologues in the particular book I felt like this one had the most imagery. I felt like in some cases I was right there, standing next to the narrator as she was hiding in the wall or running with her baby.


I honestly felt myself running with her. I felt myself running for my life; it was intriguing. One last thing that I loved about this story was once again like in the Vagina Monologues, Ensler's use of language and grammar. If you pay attention close enough you realize that a lot of the sentences in this particular piece had few periods. I felt like this expressed the narrator’s emotion and added on to the personal connection between the narrator and the reader. If you look at the line above that I quoted I had to add three periods because the sentence is the rest of the page. But, I felt like Ensler did that on purpose because the narrator wasn't finished running. When the narrator finally got on the boat and was sailing away is when you notice Ensler starting to slowly add punctuation. Ensler proved herself as a writer in this piece because I was honestly starting not to believe in her anymore. WAY TO GO ENSLER!!!