Going For The Heart

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Going for the Heart (English Essay) The short story Going for the Heart is written, by Michael J. Bugeja, in 1984. The story is about a couple, Carol and Wayne, who just have lost their child probably at or right after the birth. Carol’s and Wayne’s relationship is weakened by grief of the loss. One night Wayne cannot sleep, he observes it’s snowing and gets a childish feeling. He decides to go outside and play in the snow. Wayne picks up some snow and seeing, it melts in his hand then, he gets the idea to create a snowman. Unsuspected Carol comes and helps him before he could ask her. Wayne tells that he have built “a bungalow, a sundeck and a good living. But not one snowman” (p. 1 l. 25). It can be telling us, he has built up a good relationship with good living conditions for him and Carol. The couple haven’t had time to play and act childish, but they yearn for it. It took them 10 years to build it all up, so it has been hard work mostly. The time Wayne goes out in the snow is at 3 a.m. in the morning. Carol tells that her childhood was in Minnesota, so the couple is probably living in the states to (p. 1 l. 54-55). The whole story is written without jumps in time from start – end, so it is structured chronological. Michael J. Bugeja’s is using a first person narrative technique in the story. That means we got to know much more about, how the main character of the story, is from the inside. His thoughts and feelings are expressed and it’s all from his angle. We doesn’t know how Carol, is feeling inside, we can only guess. Michael J. Bugeja’s reason why to choose this form of narrator can have many explanations. One of the reasons can be because of the lack, of stories, of men telling how they feel in such a situation, as Michael is in. The whole idea of building the snowman and how they do it is a reflection over their relationship. Wayne starts
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