Killing Lizards Essay

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Engelsk essay – Killing Lizards. Engelsk Essay – Killing Lizards. Gavin at 12 years, moved from England to Africa with his mother, father and his older sister Amanda, 2 years ago. Outwardly it seems just like a nuclear family, but the truth is that there are more problems than people can see. Gavin misses attention from his mother, and wished that she took more notice of him. He is particularly very jealous of her sister Amanda because he thinks that she steals all the attention from their mother, from him. (Quote: - He wished she bothered about him more, did things with him as she did with Amanda.) Gavin often dream the same disturbing dream, that his father and sister die in an accident, and that he and his mother moved back to England, and her mother never remarried. That way, Gavin would be the only person in his mother's life and therefore get all the attention he wants from her. He knows that it is wrong and he tries to shake it out of his head, but deep inside he want the dream to come true, and become more and more dissatisfied with reality. Gavin also have a strange interest to kill lizards, and it has become just like a hobby for him. If you think about it, these lizards have a greater impact than you think. I see it as the lizards here is a picture of his parents, their personality and their relationship to each other. It seems like it's Gavin's mother who is wearing the pants and who decides, and therefore she will be compared with the male lizards and the father with the female lizards. There are also several descriptions of the respective parents and lizards that can be compared. For example: Mother: (Quote: - Only his mother would be having siesta. (…) brushing her short but thick reddish-brown hair. (…) She brushed methodically and absentmindedly, her shining hair. (…)). male lizard: (Quote: - The males were more colorful, with
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