... to admit responsibility for a crime she did not commit, just to please the adults around her. In "The Darkness Out There" the central message, is similar, when a girl, Sandra, realises the evil in human nature, as she is exposed to the dark side of a member of the older generation, whom she expected to be "really nice...really sweet". The general purpose of both the stories is to show the malicious, cruel side of humans, by using the innocent viewpoint of the narrator or main character, and literary devices such as dialogue and language, similes and metaphors, historical context and sentence structure, to convey the central message. The title of Plath's story is well chosen, s the first part is concerning pleasant fantasy and Superman, and the rest of the story is about Paula Brown, and her new snowsuit. The story also ends in a highly unpleasant reality. The narrator, ...

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