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23. marts 2006 af
Fatima Dzemaili (Slettet)
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The story takes place in a hospital. A midwife is just helping with a delivery, which is not going as planned. An infant has just been born and the doctor tries nervously to find the child’s heartbeat with his stethoscope. Hesitate about what to do, he tries not to panic or to worry the mother, he then takes him to another room and carefully examines him. Finally he returns, more calm, but astounded, and lets the mother and midwife know that the little baby boy is in good health, but that he is a bit different, that the inside of him is the opposite of what it should be. His heart is on the right-hand side of his body, instead of on the left, and the intestines are not on their “right” place.
His mother, Grace, is relieved that he was going to be alright. Topsy-turvy is what her child, Nick, had. The doctor had never before experienced something like this. That’s why he didn’t know how to react. Grace was a pernickety mother. So during Nick’s childhood she was very protective of him. At school he didn’t really fit in, he became insignificant. At the age of 15 his mother remarried. Thomas Siswele, the stepfather, was Nigerian. Grace and Thomas developed a strong relationship. This made Nick feel left out. “He taught Grace how to cook groundnut stew with plantain. And so it started. Each day Thomas would bring home the local paper and read out titbits to Grace as she prepared their dinner. He’d read out news about fêtes and fairs and infestations, an award-winning garden on the eighth storey of a towerblock, a fight, a rape, arson, theft. You’d almost believe, Nick thought, standing in the doorway, unheeded, that he’d gone and written that paper himself, with all the fuss she makes over it.” Nick is trying to get attention, he can see that he’s not getting it at home or in school, so one day, he goes down to the local police station and turns himself in for crimes he hasn’t commit. After a while the police get tired of Nick and him crying out wolf, so they just ignore him. Nick then meets Lydon. Lydon has been arrested and is in a police cell. Lydon asks him what he is in for, and Nick says armed robbery, a jeweler. But this crime Nick is referring to has not been committed by himself, but by Lydon. Lydon then gets irritated and ask him again. Nick gives the same answer. Lydon then gets mad over him being pert so he pulls up a knife and tries to determine where he should stab him. Nick is taken to the hospital. The doctor tries to take his pulse, that is weak, and to fix his wound, but Nick has lost a large amount of blood, and doesn’t survive. After his death the doctor spent a long time marveling over his inside, as well as the students working there, and the coroner. I assume that Nick’s main purpose was to try to get some attention, at first at the police station and later with Lydon. He is overjoyed when he arrives at the hospital. “Nick had arrived. This was his moment. He was so happy because everyone was shouting and looking and touching and pushing and staring.”
This is not a normal reaction you would have if you where taken to the hospital in a critical state, but for Nick’s case it meant a lot. His reaction is possibly caused by the lack of attention. Suddenly he is the main interest, and is not that insignificant as before. The story about crying wolf has a similar interpretation. Because both of the main characters are searching for attention, and both of the stories end in a tragic way. Nick finally got the attention, and was acknowledged for his unusual “inside”.
Translation
When we throw something out, it disappears, is what we believe. But in reality the fact of the matter is different, definitely in the United States (of America). Because here, the scientist are looking in peoples piles of garbage and very often succeed in finding something with interest. The study of garbage is a serious science, which is called garbology. Because accurately as the dunghill of the Stone Age man reveals how he lived, our garbage tells us about ourselves. The information is being sold to the retail trade, who carefully investigates the results, so they not only have to rely on focus groups, questionnaires and telephone interviews.
Back to Front
The story takes place in a hospital. A midwife is just helping with a delivery, which is not going as planned. An infant has just been born and the doctor tries nervously to find the child’s heartbeat with his stethoscope. Hesitate about what to do, he tries not to panic or to worry the mother, he then takes him to another room and carefully examines him. Finally he returns, more calm, but astounded, and lets the mother and midwife know that the little baby boy is in good health, but that he is a bit different, that the inside of him is the opposite of what it should be. His heart is on the right-hand side of his body, instead of on the left, and the intestines are not on their “right” place.
His mother, Grace, is relieved that he was going to be alright. Topsy-turvy is what her child, Nick, had. The doctor had never before experienced something like this. That’s why he didn’t know how to react. Grace was a pernickety mother. So during Nick’s childhood she was very protective of him. At school he didn’t really fit in, he became insignificant. At the age of 15 his mother remarried. Thomas Siswele, the stepfather, was Nigerian. Grace and Thomas developed a strong relationship. This made Nick feel left out. “He taught Grace how to cook groundnut stew with plantain. And so it started. Each day Thomas would bring home the local paper and read out titbits to Grace as she prepared their dinner. He’d read out news about fêtes and fairs and infestations, an award-winning garden on the eighth storey of a towerblock, a fight, a rape, arson, theft. You’d almost believe, Nick thought, standing in the doorway, unheeded, that he’d gone and written that paper himself, with all the fuss she makes over it.” Nick is trying to get attention, he can see that he’s not getting it at home or in school, so one day, he goes down to the local police station and turns himself in for crimes he hasn’t commit. After a while the police get tired of Nick and him crying out wolf, so they just ignore him. Nick then meets Lydon. Lydon has been arrested and is in a police cell. Lydon asks him what he is in for, and Nick says armed robbery, a jeweler. But this crime Nick is referring to has not been committed by himself, but by Lydon. Lydon then gets irritated and ask him again. Nick gives the same answer. Lydon then gets mad over him being pert so he pulls up a knife and tries to determine where he should stab him. Nick is taken to the hospital. The doctor tries to take his pulse, that is weak, and to fix his wound, but Nick has lost a large amount of blood, and doesn’t survive. After his death the doctor spent a long time marveling over his inside, as well as the students working there, and the coroner. I assume that Nick’s main purpose was to try to get some attention, at first at the police station and later with Lydon. He is overjoyed when he arrives at the hospital. “Nick had arrived. This was his moment. He was so happy because everyone was shouting and looking and touching and pushing and staring.”
This is not a normal reaction you would have if you where taken to the hospital in a critical state, but for Nick’s case it meant a lot. His reaction is possibly caused by the lack of attention. Suddenly he is the main interest, and is not that insignificant as before. The story about crying wolf has a similar interpretation. Because both of the main characters are searching for attention, and both of the stories end in a tragic way. Nick finally got the attention, and was acknowledged for his unusual “inside”.
Translation
When we throw something out, it disappears, is what we believe. But in reality the fact of the matter is different, definitely in the United States (of America). Because here, the scientist are looking in peoples piles of garbage and very often succeed in finding something with interest. The study of garbage is a serious science, which is called garbology. Because accurately as the dunghill of the Stone Age man reveals how he lived, our garbage tells us about ourselves. The information is being sold to the retail trade, who carefully investigates the results, so they not only have to rely on focus groups, questionnaires and telephone interviews.
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