Essay Save as Many as You Ruin

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Essay ”save as many as you ruin” Tobias Mortensen Every people experience changes in their lives. Some can in the moment seem very bad, but in the end they turn up getting good. Sometimes you get a new chance, a chance to save what you previously destroyed. Sometimes fate just gives you a second chance and this is what the short story “save as many as you ruin” is about. The main character Gerard gets an opportunity to fix what he had destroyed earlier in his life. The main character is a grownup and handsome man named Gerard from Manhatten. Gerard is approximately 40 years old. He is still thinking about what happened eight years ago. Eight years ago he lived with his daughter and his wife whom he didn’t love. He told his wife Issy that he didn’t love her, but she proclaimed that she was pregnant and Gerard couldn’t leave her even though he wanted to, because he was in love with another girl called Laurel. At that time it doesn’t sound like Gerard wanted a child, it was a life-changer for him “then he felt something crack inside him because she wouldn’t stop crying and he knew it was true” He loved Laurel, but he also loved having sex with Issy because she was such a good lover. He decides to end his relationship to Laurel, and to start a family with Issy. But this family was never going to be a good loving family, because six month after Lucy was born Issy decides to move to Los Angeles in her anger to fulfill her dream of becoming a Hollywood actress. Issy dies four years later, she was found dead in a pool, which probably was suicide because she was found with a note with Gerard’s name on. Lucy is Gerard’ sunlight, she shows that good things happened, when it looks like it couldn’t get even worse. Gerard must be a hardworking man since he has hired a nanny, the nanny Indira takes really good care of Lucy. Gerard works hard, but he still takes good care of

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