Essay on Diana Appleyard, “Poetic justice” 2004

Do you know the feeling of being stock in the past? You just can’t let go of the strong emotions and the dream you were in at the time. All these feelings are made by one person, who you thought was the one. It is like you lived alone whit the one and wake up alone. In the loneliness the only thing that existed were you and he/she, and nothing else. Until the day, where the bubble broke. And the one left you behind. Maybe he/she wanted something else, maybe her/she had other dreams and thoughts for the future. Then you’re are forgotten thorn apart, you feel lonely, your crying, and you are now outcast from the society.

Jed is the childhood boyfriend of the narrator. He was a different boy when they were young. We only hear about him through the main character. He was the popular guy, even though he didn’t try to be. He was himself and he seemed very self-confident. The narrator tells, how he smoked he didn’t try to hide his cigarette like the other boys who were frightened.
Sometimes, it was the other way around that the teachers, were afraid of him, because he was so grown up. He had his life planed in his head. He wanted to be a writer a poet. We don’t know if he became a poet, but he moved to live in Ireland as he wished, that also was the thing that torn him away from the narrator. In the present he lives alone at the ocean with his dog you get the feeling that he is lonely. The narrator is a 40-50 year old woman with a completely normal life. She has a husband, two children, two dogs and a cat. The time she writes with Jed, she gets excited because it wakes a new hope of another life with Jed. A more wild life, like they planned when they were younger. But in the end she realizes that it is too late and not possible to change her life now. She feels like she hasn’t lived her life properly when she was young. Bag then “She had the weight of family expectations of going to university and getting a career and being grown-up” page 2 lines 67 68 she is not young anymore but she stills try to be, whit wrinkle cream and lots of motion it shows that she wants to be somebody else.

Their relationship when they were young has a big effect of the way the narrator reacts when she gets Jed’s letter. She starts to hope that it might be what it was, she wants the excitement and the adventures she is missing them in her present relationship. And because they haven’t had sex before she just want it more. In her head the thought of the two of them together is very special, that is maybe also why she wants him back to in a way to finish what they started. We see the story true the narrator’s point of view it is her ho is telling the story and that way we don’t get to her Jed’s opinion there for we don’t have anything to compare and you are believable at the narrator. The story is writing in a third person perspective, the language is normal and shifts between her telling about her present situations, and her past situations. There is also the letter-conversation between Jed and the narrator. The first theme I thought of is the first unforgettable love. I base that on their big love, and suddenly breakup and then again almost finding each other their relationship was never really over and we don’t got to know if it does. Another theme, could be taking chances as the narrator tells us about her opportunities’. Researching the term poetic justice in the dictionary you get an outcome in which virtue is good and evil is bad, it seems natural they both didn’t got what they wanted Jed wanted to be a famous poet but he didn’t and the narrator gave up on Jed and stayed at school, and later she got a big family, so the meaning of the tittle contains the whole story.