Analyzing Impersonal Prayer: Gender, Society, and Postmodernism

Impersonal Prayer:

• Natural: Natural phenomena
• Grammar: be, have, and do (used in the singular), e.g., "There is a hall in San Rafael."
• Impersonal with 'it': The subject, if it occurs, e.g., "Bread for sale..."
• Potential: The action concerned is performed, e.g., "Daisy made the phone call."

Analysis of the Word and its Objects

Written in 1990, it reflects on Costa Rican patriarchal society, though with the character as a Latin American country in the second half of the twentieth century. Relationships are obviously critical. The essay contains a criticism of patriarchy and a defense of women, within a sociocultural environment. It addresses the woman's troubled relationship with her own environment.

Registration of Speech

It presents popular speech because its language is anthropological and generally revered.

Levels of Speech

The text expresses the thinking of the writer from a linguistic perspective. For example: "...concepts provided by previous sociolinguistics leads us to reflect on the phenomenon of substitution, patriarchal or full proper name of the women by their husbands, a phenomenon from all points of view detracts social existence of women and deny his own identity as a 'human being' and 'social being'."

Type of Essay

It is an essay on gender, male and female, in society and history. Patriarchal male dominance over women.

Characteristics of the Essay

1. Literary intention: It is a well-written issue.
2. Expository.
3. Has a subjective character.
4. Variety of themes.
5. The essay has digressions.
6. Character is unfinished.
7. Written in prose.
8. It is dialogue.
9. It's momentous.

Analysis

As we get to know: It is a story.

Movement Lit: Postmodernism.

Type of Narrator: Protagonist.

Sequential Organization: Disturbed.

Appreciative Code: The conflict in the isolation.

Record Speech: Revered style: Predominantly live in a small sample of what he meets when the elderly in the park.

Time

Chronological and psychological (predominant in history)

Spaces

• Physical: The city (bank, bus, office, home)
• Education: University (historical materialism, literature, philosophy)
• Economic-Social: Middle class.
• Psychological: Anxiety, character, communication that is called knowledge. It occurs in the narrator's mind, contradictory values.

Protagonist (unnamed) makes known all sides of the facts.