In First Confessions Frank O’Connor provides a short narrative that is narrated in first individual by a seven twelvemonth old male child named Jackie. He is holding unsmooth times due to his grandma and sister. Nora. He starts narrating the vicissitudes he goes through due to the manner his grandma is and his sister’s attitudes towards him to delight her grandma. Jackie’s biggest fright at this clip it his first confession and Communion which are coming shortly. He has been prepared for this by a lady named Mrs. Ryan. She has instilled in Jackie the sense of being a evildoer and the effects of this.

This has affected the male child so. that he keeps believing he will be punished for his biggest wickedness: desiring the decease of his grandma and sister. The writer uses a blithe. humourous manner to state the narrative. We find it in Jackie’s narration of his grandma: “She has a fat. wrinkled old face. and to Mother’s great outrage went round the house in bare feet” . The wit besides is in the incident when Jackie fell in the confessional and the manner the priest receives his confession. The linguistic communication throughout the narrative is besides humored and lighthearted.

Even when Nora is hassling her brother there is wit in their exchange. In the First Confession there are different symbolisms. Nora represents lip service. She has two faces. one for her grandma in order to acquire the penny that she provides while on the other manus she mortifies her brother at all times. Mrs. Ryan symbolizes Hell. with her narratives of what happens to people who sin. The priest symbolizes Heaven and all things good in the manner he sides with Jackie giving him merely three Hail Marys and besides a confect.