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hej..er der nogen der gidre at læse min stil igennem, og rette fejlene..??..har virkelig burg for hjælpen...på forhånd tak
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The short story is written by Claire Keegan, was first published in 1999. In the story we are introduced to the problems we presented to every day. The themes in the texts are how people choose to live our life, our relation to other people and sexual affection. Another theme is to such as facades and family issues.
The main character is the young man, from Cambridge. He is a student at the Harvard University.
At the moment he is at his mother’s house at the coast. The young man’s nineteenth birthday’s party doesn’t go that well, he become bored of his mother and her husband “He feels the same trepidation he always feels at these family occasions” . We get impression that his relation to his mother is like ambivalent, he feels angry when she talks about the boys activities at Harvard, it is like that it is not the first time she talks about that. And the situation doesn’t appear to the reader that the relationship between the boy and his mother is separate great.
He has a grandmother, which is died. He misses her a lot, he thought about her all the time. He had a good relationship to her. She was the one who took care of him when his parents got divorces. She could understand him, and maybe she wanted the same things like the boy want out of life. He gets inspiration from her, as she felt not accepted by other people, maybe because her ideas or behaviour was very different. And also she tired to leave the farmer life.
There are two situations where he thought about his grandmother it is on p (p. 2 l. 21-27), it is when his mother and stepfather argue, and the second situation is on p. (p.5 l. 154 f). The two situation shows that maybe when he is feeling bad, he thought about his grandmother. She is for him the only person who he looks up to in his family.
His grandmother is a role model for him, because she had found out what mattered in life and realised her mistakes. She let him thing that he has a choice, and doesn’t need to think otherwise
He said that he wills never getting married, because all the impressions he got from marriage by his parent’s divorce, his grandmother’s choice, and also because his mothers marries a man because his money. And those are actually not what he dreams about or want to be.
His interesting is more for the life qualities, to having fun, such a friendship and the opportunity to make his own choice. He wants not live a life because he has to, but on the contrary he wants to live a life which he has selected. This is the contrast between the boy and his mother lies.
The mother has opposite ways of looking things, love, life and how to be or feel happy.
She has gone from being a pig farmer’s girl; to being a rich woman that the boy has possibility to Harvard, but he doesn’t seems that interested in the potential inheritance, maybe he needs his mother in different contexts instead. She think just about that the outside facade have to be perfect. She married the millionaire man because of his wealth .But she isn’t happy with her man. The mother’s life is without meaning, she just making sure that her son get every thing just in the form of financial help. She can’t see that her son is unhappy because he wants more than the money to be happy.
The mother’s life is just like the grandmother, without any love for them selves. They can’t have the moral fibre to stay out of the car , and it is a symbol of their life.
The stepfather he has no kids, and he through the story called and referees the boy Harvard not like his son or just stepson. The boy is no thing to the man more than a fancy adjective.
Even though it is the boy’s birthday, Richard makes jokes about homosexuals; he also deals rudely and arrogantly towards the waiters, and doesn’t listen to the mother or her son. We get impression that he is a conservative man by his resistance to homosexuals and from his remark . He is maybe tired of the mothers thought about the perfect attitude. From his asking about girls and why he does not have a girlfriend, he tells the reader that he was a woman-conqueror, and that puts heaviness on the boy. Because the boy is not what the mother and her man want him to be.
The grandmother represents the sad and story of a wasted life. I all her life, she dreamt to see the Atlantic and leave the pig farm, but her husband cares only about the farm. When she could fulfilling her dream she got only one hour, if she is not back after the hour he will leave her. It shows us that it is a challenge to live the rest of the life with a man you knew would have left you.
The grandmother does not want the main character to make her same mistakes.
There are many symbols in the story, for example the mother and stepfather symbolize the bad, while the grandmother kind symbolizes the good things. The ending is a symbol of the boy, who tries to do something new. It might be a acknowledgment to the world of him being a homosexual. The story ended unhappy. At the same time it is not a happy he is almost “killed” by the waves, who are pressing him down, the waves are a symbol of the mother’s and her man view on his situation. They will not let him outlive his dreams. The water is a symbol of purity; the boy swam naked, because he will get a purification of body and mind, by clean his body, it makes choices that will change his life.