roy spivey
Engelsk essay: ”Roy Spivey” - Miranda July
We all know how pointless and empty life can be in periods of your life. We get up everyday, go to work, cook and eat with our families, and then we go to bed again - The next day is the same as the day before. These are meaningless days without any contents.
It sometimes feels like being on autopilot – we are just doing it, because we are supposed to do it. One day taking another empty day, and without realising it. Years have gone.
Sometimes it can be wise to stop for a moment and ask yourself, what you are doing right now and does it really make you happy?
Life is about being able to live the day you are given, and live in present time and not in the past.
Important moments in your life can easily slip away if you don’t catch them. That is what happens to the main character in the short story, ”Roy Spivey”, by Miranda July.
A first person narrator tells the story, and the story is told from her point of view. This makes it easier for us to identify with her, and learn about her personality. The main character’s name isn’t told but we know it is a woman. The story is written in past tense and the whole scenario on the airplane is actually a flashback, a moment where she is thinking back of an episode from her life. The flashback is about a plane trip, which the main character had been on a long time ago. The description of the meeting with Roy Spivey is very detailed, but after that the flashback vines fast forwards until suddenly she is grown up, married, her father is dead and she has a daughter who is teenager. This way of skipping all these chapters of her life clarifies that these chapters haven’t been important for her.
Sammenligne – same liv som I elviss
The main character is very insecure and is the type who’s giving up her seat in an overbooked flight. She describes herself as being a pushover since someone else upgraded to 1. class ticket, in order to fit more
We all know how pointless and empty life can be in periods of your life. We get up everyday, go to work, cook and eat with our families, and then we go to bed again - The next day is the same as the day before. These are meaningless days without any contents.
It sometimes feels like being on autopilot – we are just doing it, because we are supposed to do it. One day taking another empty day, and without realising it. Years have gone.
Sometimes it can be wise to stop for a moment and ask yourself, what you are doing right now and does it really make you happy?
Life is about being able to live the day you are given, and live in present time and not in the past.
Important moments in your life can easily slip away if you don’t catch them. That is what happens to the main character in the short story, ”Roy Spivey”, by Miranda July.
A first person narrator tells the story, and the story is told from her point of view. This makes it easier for us to identify with her, and learn about her personality. The main character’s name isn’t told but we know it is a woman. The story is written in past tense and the whole scenario on the airplane is actually a flashback, a moment where she is thinking back of an episode from her life. The flashback is about a plane trip, which the main character had been on a long time ago. The description of the meeting with Roy Spivey is very detailed, but after that the flashback vines fast forwards until suddenly she is grown up, married, her father is dead and she has a daughter who is teenager. This way of skipping all these chapters of her life clarifies that these chapters haven’t been important for her.
Sammenligne – same liv som I elviss
The main character is very insecure and is the type who’s giving up her seat in an overbooked flight. She describes herself as being a pushover since someone else upgraded to 1. class ticket, in order to fit more