Save As Many As You Ruin

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ave as many as you ruin Save as Many as You Ruin Sometimes you begin to wonder if your life has turned out the way you once imagined. In a late modern world, many people have forgot about the nuclear family, and instead the individual human being has taken over, but in some cases the nuclear family is just created in another way. In the short story “Save as many as you ruin” which is written by Simon Van Booy in 2007, we meet the main character Gerard, who lives together with his daughter Lucy. Gerard is a thoughtful man, and sometimes as a human being, people make mistakes, Gerard has made his but sometimes the light in the end of the tunnel is showing, and fate arise. Themes such as destiny, relationships and existentialism are presented in the short story. It is winter and the snow is falling. Gerard is on his way home, when a stream of consciousness hits him. Thoughts are jumping around in his head and they are going way back in time, and many subjects are being combined in strange way. He ends up meeting an old fling, going home with her and afterwards going home alone to his daughter, whom mother disappeared to Hollywood, when the daughter was six months old. Gerard is a handsome educated man with a firm job in an office that lives in Manhattan together with his eight year old daughter Lucy, who he carries a lot about. “Gerard feels a stabbing love for his daughter” (l. 18 p. 3) … “She’s wonderful, just wonderful” (l. 78 p. 5). His relationship to his daughter is very important to him and shows that he is a carrying person, and not just a person who is handsome and sleeps with many women. “Gerard is handsome. He has slept with many women. Most knew he would never love them.” (ll. 34-35 p. 3). Gerard has only loved one woman in his life, and that is Laurel, but he slept with Issy, who have birth to Lucy. The day he meet Laurel, eight years after she

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