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  • Uddannelse: STX
  • Karakter: 10 tal
  • Ord: 1103

Indholdsfortegnelse
Summary:
Analytical essay:

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Uddrag
Summary:
The short story “Last Bridge Burned” by Ron Rash is about a middle-aged man, named Carlyle who owns a little gas station about forty miles from Tennessee.

After he closes the store a young woman walks towards the window. Carlyle is scared but confronts the women. The woman is stranded because someone she hitchhiked with threw her out of the car.

Carlyle helps the woman by offering her to loan the bathroom to clean herself and he gives her food and coffee.

The woman is addicted to drugs and alcohol, but Carlyle helps her to a nearby bus station where he offers her some money.

Two years later the man finds out that she has become an award-winning musician and that she's been sober ever since their encounter.

Analytical essay:
A severe drug and alcohol addiction can be extremely hard to get out of.

It can leave scars and bad memories but in the short story “Last Bridge Burned” by Ron Rash we see a completely different story.

Here we meet a young woman with no money and an addiction to alcohol. She has nothing but, in the end, she has everything.

She ends up being a Country Music Awards nominee as well as a Grammy nominee. And as the text says: “The seesaw was tilting upward for her.”1.

The main character in the short story which is Carlyle also undergoes some sort of development through the story.

The setting of the story is mostly at a gas station just outside of Asheville in North Carolina, USA. The short story mainly takes place in one night where the woman comes to the gas station and gets helped by Carlyle.