'She Unnames Them' by Ursula K. Le Guin
Channel: Raymond Keith
Date: 2015-11-04

If you're familiar with the Bible, you'll know that in Genesis 2:19-20, God creates the animals, and Adam chooses their names:

"And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam would call every living creature, that was the name thereof. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field."

Then, as Adam sleeps, God takes one of his ribs and forms a companion for Adam, who chooses her name ("woman") just as he has chosen names for the animals.

Le Guin's story reverses the events described here, as Eve unnames the animals one by one.

Who Tells the Story?

Even though the story is very short, it's divided into two separate sections. The first section is a third-person account explaining how the animals react to their unnaming. The second section switches to first-person, and we realize that the story all along has been told by Eve (though the name "Eve" is never used). In this section, Eve describes the effect of unnaming the animals and narrates her own unnaming. 

http://shortstories.about.com/od/Flash/fl/Analysis-of-She-Unnames-Them-by-Ursula-K-LeGuin.htm

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