Mid-air | Engelsk

Indledning
What is happiness? Happiness is a feeling that we all want to attain and, hence, for which we earnestly strive. Individuals, however, achieve happiness in completely diverse ways.

or instance, some people view good grades or fame as the key to happiness while others see the key to happiness their family life as their source of joy. Nevertheless, there is not a definitive answer how to obtain happiness.

It is important to keep in mind that one’s happiness could be influenced by many different factors such as age, gender and one’s philosophy of life. In the short story “Mid-air”, written by Joy Jennifer Allot

the main character expresses that his is unhappy because of the fact that he can’t hold his puke which may sound like a silly reason to be unhappy however this only comes to showcase how one’s life priorities could be completely altered depending on one’s age and where you are in your life as we see with Alex’s situation

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Uddrag
The main theme and title are at close correlation when disusing the main theme. Throughout the text, the recipient is presented with different underlying factors for Alex’s unhappiness.

The most significant one of the factors are undoubtedly the feeling of not having anything under control and being useless which Alex experiences during the trip to Robin Hood’s Bay.

However, in reality these feelings are not something to feel “poorly” about. Although, when taking Alex’s simple-mindedness and most likely young age into consideration one would get a better understanding of his feeling.

This again substantiates the fact that one’s key to happiness depends on one’s state of life. In Alex instance, we witness a young boy whose key to happiness is very altered compared to what a normal adult would see as the key to happiness. The reason for this is Alex’s very young age.

To summarize, Alex is in a very early stage of his life furthermore he is distinctly influenced by a lot of new stuff happening to him which in the end is affecting his happiness.

We all have to go through different stages of life and sometimes one can feel stuck between two stages, for example, the path from child to teenage. This is exactly what we are seeing is happing to Alex