Save as Many as You Ruin Every once in a while, people makes(-s) mistakes that changes(-s) their lives; these mistakes can seem absolutely fatal, but sometime(+s) and in some cases a thing called fate might reach out and give you another chance. In some of these cases, the involved can get an opportunity, to help or save what they might previously have ruined. In the story ”Save as Many as You Ruin”, we get introduced to Gerard who is a handsome man from New York, and is(fjernet is eller brugt
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Save as many as you ruin Gerard is the main character of the short story “Save as many as you ruin”. He has a daughter, Lucy, whose mother, Issy, died tragically many years prior to when the story takes place. Gerard has made many mistakes in his life, and in the story we hear about how he recovers from one of the biggest ones, when he once again meets the love of his life after many years of separation. The themes and topics discussed in the text include making mistakes, losing and finding love
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Save as many as you ruin Gerard is the main character of the short story “Save as many as you ruin”. He has a daughter, Lucy, whose mother, Issy, died tragically many years prior to when the story takes place. Gerard has made many mistakes in his life, and in the story we hear about how he recovers from one of the biggest ones, when he once again meets the love of his life after many years of separation. The themes and topics discussed in the text include making mistakes, losing and finding love
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Save as many as you ruin The short story Save as many you ruin is written in 2007 by Simon Van Booy. The theme in the story is about existentialism. In the story we are following Gerard, who is the protagonist. He has a midlife crisis. Gerard thinks a lot about his past and sometimes he questions his own life. He thinks whether he has done enough in his life. The protagonist has a conflict with his past and he feels somehow stuck in his past because of a bad relationship. Gerard is the main
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Save as Many as You Ruin In the short story ’Save as Many as You Ruin’ we are introduced to the way of making relationships in most of the big cities. In this essay, I will be analyzing the text focusing on the mood and contrast. In the end I will be making a separate conclusion, where I will be summing up the things I’ve analyzed. The short story ’Save as Many as You Ruin’ begins in medias res. It appears that Gerard is very selfish and somehow lost in his career and in his wife since he
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Save as Many as You Ruin by Simon Van Booy. It is a shorts story from 2007. It jumps a lot between present and past tense, which makes the story more exiting for the reader, it also starts in medias res. The story is about Gerard who lives in Manhattan. Gerard want’s to stand out from the crowd, like when he wonders about his life is extraordinary (line 9). Or when he sees the mannequins who are still (line 28-30). Is maybe because he is afraid of ending up like them, still and boring, and
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Save as Many as You Ruin The story, “Save as Many as You Ruin” takes place in Manhattan and tells the story about Gerard who is approximately 40 years old. The story takes a turn when Gerard meets Laurel by coincidence after he sees her through a shop window. Gerard and Laurel used to date, but the relationship ended when Gerard admitted to have made another woman pregnant. The woman Gerard made pregnant was Issy and the child they got was named Lucy. Issy decides to move to Los Angeles to fulfill
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Save as many as you ruin The text “Save as many as you ruin”, is written by Simon Van Booy. The main character of this short story is called Gerard, and he is about 40 years old. In my analysis of this story I will in some parts go through some parts of the story to find the red line. I am also going to comment on some of the themes, how the language is used, and how the mood is. In the beginning of the short story, we are told that Gerard is on his way home from his work. As he walks home, his
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Save as Many as You Ruin In the postmodern society, focus on individuality is a key point. Each person lives in their own reality, and has to figure out their purpose and identity themselves. Simon van Booy’s short story “Save as Many as You Ruin” is about a man named Gerard wandering Manhattan, looking back at his life, trying to reconcile with his past, accepting the choices he’s made. As he wanders through the snow, he meets his old love, and gets a chance to correct some of his past mistakes
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Save as Many as You Ruin Miracles and catastrophes are inevitable in life and so is the past. Therefore it’s not possible to run away from what happened earlier in life and the footprints we made back then. However, after every catastrophe miracles often get the opportunity to flower. In the short story “Save as Many as You Ruin”, written in 2007 by Simon Van Booy, the main character; Gerard, is given due to fate the opportunity to be blessed by new chances in order to save what has been ruined
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