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That summer is about a young boy who lives in North Down, Ireland. He has a premonition that someone would die this summer, but he can´t predict, who or when.
North Down is a community of protestants, where ´The Walshes´ are the only Catholic family. Mrs. Walsh makes an impression on the boy, while she is sunbathing in her backyard unaware of the fact that the boy and his friend are peaking at her. The fascinating impression of Mrs. Walsh enhances throughout the summer.
One day two children went missing, the main character is convinced that his premonition was true. When the concern is about to get out of hand, the children show up naked and grinning.
Nonethe-less, his premonition becomes reality, because that same weekend Mrs. Walsh dies in a car accident.
When her family empties her house, the main character is the only one who has sympathy with them. (150 words).
Essay:
As a child, it is often the most influential and significant stories that are remembered and retold.
That Summer by Safia Moore (2015), is a magnificent example of how a boy refers to a memorable summer.
The short story is based on how a local young boy deals with topics such as childhood, sexual attraction, death, and ´The Troubles´ which was a religious conflict in Northern Ireland.
The short story is told from the narrator’s point of view, thus the narrator being a 1st person narra-tor. We can only see things from his point of view, and therefore only observes the other characters from the outside.
That summer begins announcing the narrator’s prediction and it is written as a retrospective narrative which is shown in the first phrase of the story:
"That summer I was sure that someone would die" (p. l, l. 1). This sentence foreshadows the outcome of the following summer.
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