Analysis of “Debbie and Julie”

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Analysis of “Debbie and Julie” I want to introduce the written exercise with a biography of the author, and give a summary of the story, and write something about the persons in the story and their relationship to each other. Finally I will in the interpretation and in the analysis focus on the genre, the narrator, the themes in the story, milieus ect., characterization of Debbie and Julie, and of her parents. The author of the story is Doris Lessing. She was born in 22nd. October 1919 in Persia (Iran), because both of her parents were living in Persia at this time. They were both English citizens. She had respected parents, her father was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia, and her mother was a nurse, but they moved to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to be rich. Doris Lessing spent most of his childhood in Africa; she described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain. She was educated first at a convent school, and then at an all-girls school. She was an avid reader and an excellent student. The text is about a girl, who is the protagonist in the story, she named Julie. The story opens with Julie when she is looking at herself in the mirror. Julie is described a fat girl, because she becomes pregnant, she have to leave her parents, because of her pregnancy. She move to London, and a girl named Debbie takes care of her. Debbie lives in an apartment in London, where she works as a prostitute. Everyday visits different men the apartment, they are some frightening customers, and some of them try to come in contact with Julie, but Debbie looks after her. Debbie has promised that she will help her, but when Julie is about to give birth, she is out of country with a man. Julie is helpless now, so she leaves the apartment. She takes a bus to the other side of the town, where she knows that there is an unlocked shed. It is sleeting and dark

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