In Nalo Hopkinson\u2019s short story \u201cShift\u201d, She uses pronouns as a way to express the idea that Caliban does not truly know who he is.\u00a0 When referring to Caliban, she always refers to him as \u201cyou\u201d regardless of who is speaking.\u00a0 This only changes in the last sentence of the story when she says, \u201cYou turn to look at your mother and sister. \u201cI\u201d, you say.\u201d\u00a0 By only referring to caliban as \u201cyou\u201d throughout the entire story, but then allowing him to finally refer to himself as \u201cI\u201d at the end of the story, the pronouns represent a shift in how Caliban thinks about himself, and show that his experience with his love interest in this story has in some way given him hope to establish his own identity.\u00a0 During Caliban\u2019s final conversation with his girlfriend when she figures out the situation with his mother and sister, Caliban is \u201cShocked\u201d when she asks him \u201cWho do you think you are?\u201d\u00a0 The Golden Girl has clearly surprised the entire family with what seems like a simple question, but their reactions show it to be a major shift in how these characters think about themselves.\u00a0 It is only after this conversation that he finally says \u201cI\u201d to his mother and sister.\u00a0 By leaving this one word statement as the last event in the story, Hopkinson emphasizes the importance of Caliban finally using the pronoun \u201cI\u201d to refer to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Nalo Hopkinson\u2019s short story \u201cShift\u201d, She uses pronouns as a way to express the idea that Caliban does not truly know who he is.\u00a0 When referring to Caliban, she always refers to him as \u201cyou\u201d regardless of who is speaking.\u00a0 This only changes in the last sentence of the story when she says, \u201cYou…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icce-post","category-post-group-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}