Sorry for the Loss - Written Essay

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A. Sorry for the Loss Being free is not always a question about you as an individual. It can also be a question about what surroundings and environment that is affecting you. When trying to describe what freedom is, metaphors are often used in an attempt to simplify the term. Usually it is compared to animals, for instance a butterfly. In Bridget Keehan’s short story; ‘Sorry for the Loss’, we follow the chaplain Evie, who has to deliver some sad news to one of the inmates, Victor. Though, delivering the news does not go as expected. Evie is a chaplain of a prison. She does not like the atmosphere in the prison, if fact it goes to the point where it intimidates her. Evie’s favourite times are when the prisoners are locked in their cells. It makes her relax and she gets a comfortable feeling when it is not as noisy as when the prisoners are out of their cells. Evie is able to find peaceful moments despite her being in this brutal surrounding where various people are locked up for murders and other criminal acts. Evie is very religious and therefore she spends most of the quiet moments on praying and meditating. Evie is a very kind girl, and she is nice to the prisoners even though they have done wrong in the past. She tries to put herself in the prisoners place to seek an understanding about how the prisoners feel. Evie is very nervous when she has to confront Victor with the message. His Nan died and therefore Evie is afraid that he will upset or even mad when she tells him the news. Evie is a very fragile woman, but she is also a very loving, which explains how she feels about telling Victor about his Nan. Victor is young, compared to Evie, so she imagines him being her son when she first sees him in his cell. She did not know how he looked like before she entered the cell, so she was caught off guard by his young looks, which instantly made her feel sympathy
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