Abstract
This extract is the first scene of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child, a book published in 1988 which deals with Ben a monster-like child whose birth deeply alters his parent's life.
This first scene introduces us to the main characters i.e. David and Harriet and sets the general tone of the story to continue. In this extract we are given insight into characters and their lifestyles, their moral and psychological traits.
I will study David and Harriet to see the stark contrast between them and their environment.
We first met David and Harriet David at an office party ,or they meet each other for the first time and right from the start it sets the tone with adjectives such as "conservative'' ,"old-fashioned" the narrator use them as "non-affectionate adjectives". We immediately feel that David and Harriet don't fit in and are not welcome by the rest of the crowd.
