![]() The speaker also touches on suicidal thoughts and a friend of hers who passed away from breast cancer in Part 1. She remembers her mother's miscarriage and her paternal grandmother's death as examples of death in her life. In Part 1, the speaker recollects her musings on death as a child she recounts always asking "Is he dead, is she dead?" about characters she saw on TV (6). The work is broken up into 18 sections that are separated by blank pages and an image of a TV with static on the screen. Instead, it uses the recollections and musings of the narrator, each of them their own scene, to paint a picture of American identity as Rankine understands it in 2004. The book does not contain a specific narrative arc. ![]() In Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Rankine uses a first-person speaker, which gives the work the feeling of an internal monologue. ![]()
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