Save As Many As You Ruin

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Save as Many as You Ruin Save as Many as you Ruin is a text written by Simon Van Booy. In the beginning of the story we get to hear about the main character, Gerard. He is a man in the age around 40. In this essay I will briefly go through the happening of the story and make some connections and find the red string that runs through the story. I will also comment on the mood, themes and language. Gerard is on his way home from work, it is not dark outside but the lights are coming on, it is winter “Gerard thinks of everyone’s foot steps in the snow”, and therefore he mentions the footsteps he sees in the snow, which is laying al around. Nature is in focus through the whole story, it seems like his emotions is getting expressed through the descriptions of nature. “ Gerard thinks of everyone’s footprints in the show. Manhattan was once a forest. He imagines the footprints of an Indian sliping home, on his shoulders a warm carcass with clumps of snow stuck to its fur” The narrator of the story has a limited point of view but works as an omniscient narrator as well. Gerard, wonders if he will ever make something that would be worth remembering him by or if will end up just like the footprints in the snow; gone and then forgotten. He remembers an episode in which he met a rabbi and how he kind of made fun about his documentary about the war. This first part of the story functions as an introduction to the rest of the story. In the next part we gradually get to hear about his daughter who he loves more than anything in the world “Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter.” We also get to hear a bit about her; her name is Lucy, she has brown hair and she is eight-years-old. Lucy’s mother, Izzy, died when Lucy was only a few months old, but she does not know because Gerard cannot get himself to tell her and maybe ruin her childhood. Lucy had been asking

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