Abduction By Shelagh Delaney

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Essay on ‘Abduction’ by Shelagh Delaney Ann, who is the eldest sister, is a successful woman. She loves children and works as a paediatrician to help sick kids. In a young age she got sterilised. Ann wishes to give her little brother a good life and a proper education. Even though her brother has not any wishes for a good education. Ann acts as a supporter, a parent and a protector in an extremely way. Ann is a woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. Ann tries to abduct her Brother, as good as she can. She wants him to experience her lifestyle, and make him as successful as she is. But in the end she spoils his life. Even though the brother does pretty well with his marriage and child, she will not give him up. She still needs to protect him, as he was a little baby. The brother is a sixteen-year-old teenager. The young man has a problem; he doesn’t know what he seeks for. He is confused of the many opportunities in life. His Sister “Ann” has abducted him from his home in Manchester. Ann tries to get him on the right road, but the college which Ann got him in to, does not please him. Instead he is interested in other activities like Sports and music. He gets a job at The Nursing Times, but he does not like it. He meets a young woman, Marianne, and becomes a father. But sooner he gets divorced, because of his problem with alcohol. He dies while he is thinking pleasant thoughts of his mother, father, Marianne and his daughter. We do not get much information about Marianne. All we know is that she meets the brother. They become a couple and get married. She gives birth to their child, but the relationship ends in a sad way. The brother was a family dad, but converts to be an alcoholic. Marianne throws him out, and after that he moves in with his sister again. In the first lines at page 1 it is a 1st person narrator who expresses the story.
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