How Lucky You Are - Depi Alper

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How Lucky You Are Debi Alper This short fiction story finds place in London city. It could have happened yesterday or 5 years ago – no one knows, but you do know that it’s a kind of modern teenage story. The story tells us about the difference between human beings, but also how you can find similarity in the differences. This boy Max is usual an ordinary kid with huge fantasy and a twisted imagination, but when he decides to bunk off from school – he meets this Iran girl, Ishraqi. The story may be want to tell us that we have to remember how lucky we really are, but is Max really lucky at all? The story is buildup in two parts. The first starts with we hear about when Max already have met Ishraqi. How he finds himself wondering if it’s really was real he met her. You can tell that he misses her, but at the same time he is confused because they’ve only seen each other for a few hours. We also hear about the relationship he has to his father. His father left the family to find himself and thought it would be the best for Max and his mom. This didn’t fit very well with Max, so from that point he hated his own father. This took Max’ enthusiasm from school away and he started to take his life from school unserious. The first part of the story he’s sitting with his phone in hand with a photo of him and Isrhaqi on the screen. The second part we are in Max’ head drifting back to that day he met Ishraqi, the past. In this part we hear how Max runs into Ishraqi and Alexa (who is a support worker, but also originally a refugee from Kosovo) and how he loses Ishraqi again. Main characterization of Max and Ishraqi Max: Max is an ordinary teenage boy from London. About 15-17 years old. He is not busy with his life figuring out what he wants in the future. He just lives in the moment, have some friends and walks on The Brit School, which is a school for performing

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