First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

Victim and key prop: The victim is the character who will be off stage for the bulk of our story, appearing only in the narrator's thoughts. They are going to have some sort of accident or other bad thing befall them. The key prop is might be the cause of the accident, or simply the thing they interact with in this scene.

Narrator and secondary character: The narrator is the character telling the story, and the secondary character is someone who they have a relationship with, who cares about the victim, and who will feature in other parts of our story.

One interesting detail here is tense.

That Eye, the Sky is written in the present tense. There are several types of present tense which each create their own feeling.

This snippet is an example of simple passive tense (Dad has, I am). In using this tense, Tim Winton reinforces Ort's childlike point of view.

You'll find if you do the same thing, you'll create a kind of spacey, floaty feeling.