Ellyday

1) A summary of Ellyday. Ellyday is about two young girls. The one is called Elly and the other girl name is Sophie. It’s all starts one Sunday morning and it is nearly Christmas time. Sophie walks into Ellys room and notice that Elly is very nervous and can’t speak normally and also looks physically weak. Then Sophie says to Elly that she knows, but Elly pretends that she doesn’t know want Sophie is talking about. Sophie tries to get Elly to sit down on the sofa with her, but Elly ignores it and starts looking at her cds instead. She can see that Elly’s hands are shaking. Then Sophie asks Elly to pull up her jumper. Sophie says to Elly that she knows that she hasn’t been eating for a long while now. But Elly says to Sophie that she is just jealous, because she is skinner then Sophie. Elly begins to cry and sits on the floor. Elly asks Sophie when is it okay to die. And Sophie doesn’t know what to say to that, she is choked over Elly’s behaviour. Elly pulls up her jumper and the story ends. 2) Characterize of Elly and Sophie. Elly - Is about 16 years old and properly still live by her parents, as a single child. We don’t hear anything about her family and I don’t think the mother and father take a big interest in her live. Elly has anorexia but she will not allow her self to see that. She is very skinny, pale and almost looks like a match. She is talking about, when it is okay to die with Sophie and that must be a sign of suicidal tendencies, I think. She feels like nobody in the world understands her, because they can’t see that she is to fat from her point of view. Sophie - We don’t hear so much about Sophie in the story, other then that she wants to help her friend with her problem. She several times tries to connect with Elly, but without any luck. She sounds like a nice, considerate, loving friend for Elley. But maybe Sophie really deep down don’t know, Elly as good as she think she does. Engelskessay: Ellyday by Martin The short story ”Ellyday” is