Indledning
“When the lipstick circus was nearly finished he was right up in the upstairs hall, then he heard the door opening and closing and his mother coming into the hall.”
This is the short story of a boy, who loves to draw circuses with lipsticks until everything goes wrong. The fictional short story “The lipstick circus” by the Scottish writer Brian McCabe was published in 1985 and it is a part of the short story collection
‘The Lipstick Circus and Other Stories’. Brian McCabe was born in 1951 in Edinburgh and grew up in a small city called Bonnybrigg in Scotland.
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Uddrag
The boy, who is the main character in the story, cries a few times throughout the story because of fear. Probably because of “it”:
“It was only a spark of hot coal, but he started crying anyway because it gave him a fright and he dropped the poker on the floor.”
One thing that is really obvious is, that the boy is really fascinated by circus clowns:
“He drew in the body and the legs and the head. He drew a pointed hat on the head, then a round red nose and little slits for eyes.
When he had done the clown, he moved up a step and started doing a chair, and when he had done the chair he moved up again and started doing the horses.” (page 23) Otherwise
there is not really anything about his name or age, but the fact that he cries a lot could probably indicates that he is a minor, especially this sentence makes it makes it sound like he is a minor:
“He had cried for his father to take him out with him, but his father had told him to sit there and watch the circus until his mother came home” (page 18).
The boy goes through a development which makes him a dynamic character. He starts out loving to draw on the walls with a lipstick
but eventually he realizes that it is not really that cool: “But a lipstick circus was bad, like the thing he felt when there was nobody else in the house.” (page 24)
We do not really meet the boy’s father, but we get some descriptions of him. On page 18, we get to know that the father had gone out to put on a horse. The reader can assume that he is interested in horses.
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