To create a well-structured and universally appealing narrative, the author must consider the relationship between the speaker and the audience he or she is directly addressing. Creating a good speaker/audience relationship depends largely on the openness and accessibility of the main character to his readers. This two-way communication is constructed through a first-person narrative. In the story titled “Amazing Grace” by Abdel Nasser Ould Yessa, the speaker not only creates an intimate relationship with his readers but also directs his message to a specific audience. Rather than speaking to a universal audience, Yessa's narrative aims to promote a message to a particular audience. Although the speaker's primary audience is distinct and specific for the majority of the narrative, a connection is created with his general audience through a first-person narrative and the inclusion of universal and recognizable elements. With pronouns like “I” and “we,” Yessa, the narrator, presents her story and conveys firsthand to her audience what she did, how she felt, and why she did it. The reader is then able to experience the events of the story through his lens. What makes Yessa's slave narrative different from other narratives of its genre is that it is not only written from the perspective of the slave owner, but its structure also employs multiple speakers. aimed at a defined audience. In the narrative, the speaker immediately limits his audience by incorporating cultural elements and descriptions that are not identifiable and that are not common to all. For example, the description of his circumcision ceremony, filled with large “ritual tents” and “celebratory songs,” with “beating drums,” and his decision-making process of choosing a slave, distance… middle of paper.. . ....And. You have power. You built this country. All you lack is confidence” (Sage and Kristen 203). The use of the pronouns "we" and "you" shows that Yessa is speaking for and representing the world's slave owners to an audience that is not limited to Yebawwa, her former slave, but to whom Yebawwa represents, the population slave as a whole. The placement of cultural elements and themes may have limited the speaker's audience and lengthened the distance between the speaker and Western audiences, but through the use of a first-person narrative and universal ideologies a connection is still established. The use of a first-person narrative may not be able to completely transcend the cultural barriers that exist in the story, but it is able to shorten the distance between the speaker and the reader and create a sense of authenticity and truthfulness.