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B: Essay

The short story”Our Nicky’s Heart” written by Graham Swift was published in 2000.

In the text it isn’t mentioned who the narrator is, but I think the narrator could be Mark because on page 3 lines 73-75 there is written:
” Dad looked at me as if maybe I should pronounce – as if being in my final year at vet college gave me an authority in situations like that”.
In the beginning of the story it says that Michael and Eddy work at the farm with their Dad named Frank Randall and the third child named Mark was the clever one and studies on college. Therefore I think that Mark possibly is the narrator.

“I can remember catching Nicky once in front of the bathroom mirror when he hadn’t seen me, running a comb again and again through his hair and giving himself a steady slow burn of a stare”.
Later the parents get a fourth boy. They wished it was a girl because they got three boys running. The boy was called Nick, but according to his parents they rather would call him Nicky. The cause to why they would call him Nicky was that they always dreamed of getting a girl. They had already named the baby “Sally” before the birth, but later when Sally turned to be a boy they changed the name. And that’s why they treat him like a girl the next several years after his birth. Nicky was very feminine in his actions and this is probably of the parents feminine look at him. On page 2 lines 39-40 there is written that his mother ran the final rough hand though his hear.
Nicky was different from his three brothers. He was more spoiled than them. It says in the story that he was the only one who got a Yamaha. This difference between Nicky and his brothers was maybe the cause to his death.

“But the gist was that Nicky was a very healthy young man and we should consider whether his organs should be made available to others, In particular, the heart”.
After Nicky’s death the doctor said that Nicky’s heart could be useful for another person. It created a sad atmosphere in the family. The family accepted the heart transplant because it could rescue another human life. In this connection I think that it is alright to make heart transplants because it would rescue humans. But it was sad and unfair that the doctor didn’t told the parents that they would use Nicky’s heart for an older woman, nearly at the same age as Nicky’s mother.

I think that the massage in this text probably could be heart transplants, because in the headline it mentions “Our Nicky’s heart”. Heart transplants are difficult situations and it’s always hard to take a final decision. Like in this text the family was very upset of Nicky’s situation and the heart transplant. But in the end it would help other people, so they in one or another way have to accept the transplantation.
So I think the conclusion is that heart transplants are difficult and hard operations and decision, but it’s acceptable if only it can rescue and is useful for other humans.