Indholdsfortegnelse
Summary
Analytical essay
Optimer dit sprog - Læs vores guide og scor topkarakter
Uddrag
In The short story “Edge of the World” we are presented to a refugee family of 3 consisting of a mom, a dad and their daughter.
In “Edge of the World” the mother in the story learns her English from soap operas on tv. The mother didn’t go to school, but her daughter must go and do well.
The daughter recognizes that they know different things in the world, about the world. Her mother “knew about war, what it felt like to be shot at in the dark, what death looked like up close in your arms, what a bomb could destroy.”
And her refugee father knew when the mother left, “To lose your love, to be abandoned by your wife was a thing of luxury even—it meant that you were alive.”
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Firstly, looking at the relationships between these characters it quickly becomes clear that the roles between adult and child are reversed.
The child takes on the role of nurturing and reading to the mom, which is normally something that either the mom or the dad does for the child this shows that the main character did not receive the amount of care that she needed which can lead to serious mental problems in adulthood.
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