The short story under analysis is entitled “Up-ladle at three”.

It was written by an
Anglo-Welsh novelist, short story writer, broadcaster and journalist William
Glynne-Jones. The story belongs to literary discourse. It is a suspense story.

The text presents a tragic episode during iron-making process.

As for types of discourse, there are dialogue, narrative and description and
dialogue prevails over narrative and description in the text. Dialogue here
performs/serves a narrative function. Dialogues make the characters self-revealing
and the author implicitly shows their traits. The description establishes scenery and
the process of iron-making. The narrative presents a succession of events and
makes the story dynamic. The author also reveals characters and relations through
conflicts. There are at least three conflicts raised up in the story: 1) man against
society; 2) man against man and 3) man against machine.