Mount Pleasant is a short story published in 2005 written by Marie-Louise Buxton,  about a girl named Elizabeth, who with her parents and younger sister Lena, move to a town called Mount Pleasant. The story is written in first person narrative, from Elizabeth’s point of view. The text takes up themes such as gender differences, what it’s like living in a suburb, ghosts, and children’s imaginations. The title of the story is Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant is the suburban town in South America that the family just moved to. Even though there is a real town called Mount Pleasant in America the reason the author chose this the name Mount Pleasant in particular might be because the name implies that the town is a pleasant and happy place, but in fact this might be a sarcastic way of saying that, that’s exactly what it isn’t. The story is told in explicit first person narrator, and the fact that we hear the story from a child’s point of view gives the story a certain feeling. Everything we are told is something Elisabeth experiences, and therefore our knowledge is limited by her view of the world. Not only are we being told the story from one person’s point of view, but from a child’s. That is a special narrative technique, because most children see the world in a slightly different way than adults, and you could therefore discuss how reliable the narrator is. The language is also quite special, which is probably because the narrator is a child, and comes from a specific background. There’s a lot of slang in the text, which tells us that the story probably takes place somewhere in the Southern States of America. The way the story is written emphasizes the fact that it’s a child who is the first person narrator. This is seen places in the text where Elizabeth says "babby" instead of "baby" and "mammy" instead of "mommy". “They feel on my face like the glue we peel off our hands after arts crafts hour at school with Mrs. Kelly”. She also inv