Because It Is Running By Analysis
Because It Is Running By
The short story by Jo Lloyd is written in 2009 and has the title: “Because It Is Running By”. The story is about a young man, who lives with his mother in the country and helps her through daily tasks, and it takes place in the country in England. The young man, Wil, and his mother lives together there, and takes care of the place, now that Wil’s father passed away. The mother has planned to run a bed and breakfast, and has hired a girl to help her. Wil is a young man in his early 20’s and he lives with his mother and has probably done so for most of his life. We get to know that he has never left Britain, and the only woman in his life is his mother. The girl, who is helping Wil’s mother, is called Edie. We do not get to know much about her and her past, we only know that she is very sure of whom she is and where she is going in life. Wil and Edie are the two main characters, but they are two very different people, and have very different visions of life. Wil is staying with his mother, while Edie is out, exploring life and entering unknown areas of the world. The story has a different kind of narrator because of the dialogue in the text. The whole story seems to be a big conversation, as if the conversation never ends, because of the missing quotation marks, which I assume is done on purpose by the narrator to create some sort of flow between the main characters stories and lives. It is a third person and limited omniscient narrator, because the narrator only knows Wil’s thoughts. This gives us very good insight in Wil’s life, but not much insight of who Edie is other than she is a girl who likes to explore different aspects and sides of life. Wil is a young man, perhaps at the same age as Edie and they clearly seem to be getting along. In the beginning of the story Edie and Wil does not really care about each other, or so it seems: “Some mates of mine are playing a gig in town. Want to come? As if it didn’t matter what she said.
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The short story by Jo Lloyd is written in 2009 and has the title: “Because It Is Running By”. The story is about a young man, who lives with his mother in the country and helps her through daily tasks, and it takes place in the country in England. The young man, Wil, and his mother lives together there, and takes care of the place, now that Wil’s father passed away. The mother has planned to run a bed and breakfast, and has hired a girl to help her. Wil is a young man in his early 20’s and he lives with his mother and has probably done so for most of his life. We get to know that he has never left Britain, and the only woman in his life is his mother. The girl, who is helping Wil’s mother, is called Edie. We do not get to know much about her and her past, we only know that she is very sure of whom she is and where she is going in life. Wil and Edie are the two main characters, but they are two very different people, and have very different visions of life. Wil is staying with his mother, while Edie is out, exploring life and entering unknown areas of the world. The story has a different kind of narrator because of the dialogue in the text. The whole story seems to be a big conversation, as if the conversation never ends, because of the missing quotation marks, which I assume is done on purpose by the narrator to create some sort of flow between the main characters stories and lives. It is a third person and limited omniscient narrator, because the narrator only knows Wil’s thoughts. This gives us very good insight in Wil’s life, but not much insight of who Edie is other than she is a girl who likes to explore different aspects and sides of life. Wil is a young man, perhaps at the same age as Edie and they clearly seem to be getting along. In the beginning of the story Edie and Wil does not really care about each other, or so it seems: “Some mates of mine are playing a gig in town. Want to come? As if it didn’t matter what she said.
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