Save as Many as You Ruin

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Save as Many as You Ruin by Simon Van Booy Is our future established and are we just following a route, which is already set? Or is everyone the architect of their own future? Manhattan was once a forest inhabited by Indians. As a result of the immigration the Dutch gave it the name New Amsterdam. Today Manhattan is the most densely populated county in the US, and one of the most populated areas in the world, and it is here the short story “Save as many as you ruin” take place. The story is written in third person with a limited point of view. The narrator keeps close to Gerard and describes his thoughts on almost every subject. Gerard’s feelings, thoughts and experiences are present by the narrator. The thoughts of Laurel and Lucy are based on descriptions and thoughts of Gerard, but nevertheless the reader seems to get an impression of their thoughts and feelings through the ones of Gerard. We jumps between present and past tense several times. We are quickly introduced to the main character, which is called Gerald. He is a middle-aged handsome man, who is living alone with his daughter Lucy. He seems to be very confused, maybe he has many things going on in his mind, he cannot control. He wants to stand out of the crowd and don’t be like the mannequins, he is talking about in the beginning; boring, unable to really fell, sleep, eat etc. He is the type of man who sleeps with many women, but does not let them get close to him emotionally. Gerald feels stabbing love for his eight-year-old daughter. She has short brown hair with Hello Kitty clips pinned cleanly to her head. We get the felling that Lucy is the light of Gerald’s life. Gerald hired a nanny named Indira, a heavy-set Barnard student from New Delhi. She cooks dinner every weeknight and helps Lucy with her homework. Indira’s father is dead, and she is becoming a part of the family with
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