Kiss | Analytical essay

Indledning
All people deal with difficulties from the past. However, despite ethnical background and childhood traumas we all respond and deal differently to these life crises and challenges.

Some overcome them through love, family relations, and friendships, others react more negatively, which can lead to extreme actions hurting themselves or even others. This is described in the short story “Kiss”, published in the year 2019 by Elizabeth Baines.

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Uddrag
The short story begins with a young couple kissing on their way out of the London Tube station.

The young couple has just recently met at a party, for troubled children, where they both works.

In the opposite direction, a man is heading into the station. The man wears a backpack on his back, which contains a detonator. We know that the man intends to do a terrorist attack on innocent people at the station.

Therefore, he gets very nervous, when he was pushed from behind and nearly falls. He was afraid that the detonator might have been damaged and won’t go off as planned.

The author describes the three main characters' pasts and how they ended up in this terrible situation. Through flashbacks, the reader gets a better understanding of the characters' actions.

The young woman's outer characterization is described as a young woman, with pale skin and blonde hair in a ponytail, dressed in a silver jacket and green sneakers.

To sum up, the young woman was sexually abused by her father and her mother did nothing to stop it. Therefore, she got anorexia for a year and ended up in the hospital.

This also had a major influence on her in the following years, e.g. on her self-esteem and in the school “In school she kept away from the other girls, sat in the library at lunchtime, her limbs heavy and frozen, while they went off down the road to hang around the café 45 and gossip and call to the boys1 ”.

This quote describes that, she doesn’t have any friends and that she is very alone and insecure. The relationship to her mother is hurtful and it is obvious to the reader that she is longing for acknowledgement and love from her mother which she does not get.