Stolpestad
’Stolpestad’
William Lychack
People have to make some changes in their life, it is not always easy, but it is necessarily. It is something that a lot of people go through, almost everybody. They got their normal day routine, which can be very boring.
”as if you’ve seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again, over and over” (p.4 ll. 103.104). This quote appears in the novel ‘Stolpestad’ by William Lychack. It is about a “boring” life that you are just stuck in.
Stolpestad experiences how everything in life just goes by, without him really noticing, or at least doing anything about it.
In this story, it is a second person narrator. It is Stolpestad that the narrator addresses to, but you cannot avoid, feeling a part of the story. The text gets very personal, by saying ‘you’ “Was toward the end of your shift” (p. 2, l. 1). The writer does it all consciously.
Stolpestad does not seem to be very happy with his life, probably because of the same routine every day and every night. “Back to all the turns you were born, your whole life spent along the same sad streets” (p.1, ll. 11-12). He does not talk about his hometown, in a good way. He says that he had spent his whole life, in the same sad streets. I also think, if we had to “be” Stolpestad, we would not have anything to say. Stolpestad’s view on his own life, is just one boring circle, that just goes around and around.
He is also in a pub every night, getting a beer or a beer too much. He does not seem to like the pub, and the people who go there. I wonder why he does not just go home.
In the story, Stolpestad had unexpected guests, from the family with the dog. They came back, to tell him that he did not kill the dog properly, they noticed it, when they were about to bury it.
That day, Stolpestad’s life turned around. He finally got some resistance in his life.
“And in the silence, in the darkness, you stand like a thief on the lawn – stand watching this
William Lychack
People have to make some changes in their life, it is not always easy, but it is necessarily. It is something that a lot of people go through, almost everybody. They got their normal day routine, which can be very boring.
”as if you’ve seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again, over and over” (p.4 ll. 103.104). This quote appears in the novel ‘Stolpestad’ by William Lychack. It is about a “boring” life that you are just stuck in.
Stolpestad experiences how everything in life just goes by, without him really noticing, or at least doing anything about it.
In this story, it is a second person narrator. It is Stolpestad that the narrator addresses to, but you cannot avoid, feeling a part of the story. The text gets very personal, by saying ‘you’ “Was toward the end of your shift” (p. 2, l. 1). The writer does it all consciously.
Stolpestad does not seem to be very happy with his life, probably because of the same routine every day and every night. “Back to all the turns you were born, your whole life spent along the same sad streets” (p.1, ll. 11-12). He does not talk about his hometown, in a good way. He says that he had spent his whole life, in the same sad streets. I also think, if we had to “be” Stolpestad, we would not have anything to say. Stolpestad’s view on his own life, is just one boring circle, that just goes around and around.
He is also in a pub every night, getting a beer or a beer too much. He does not seem to like the pub, and the people who go there. I wonder why he does not just go home.
In the story, Stolpestad had unexpected guests, from the family with the dog. They came back, to tell him that he did not kill the dog properly, they noticed it, when they were about to bury it.
That day, Stolpestad’s life turned around. He finally got some resistance in his life.
“And in the silence, in the darkness, you stand like a thief on the lawn – stand watching this