Short Story: She's Story

Klingova, Milena
10/3
02/04/13

SHORT STORY

Final Draft

She was walking home after a big trigonometry test, which in her head had not gone well at all, even though she had spent hours and hours, preparing for it. When I think about it, her thoughts cannot be entirely trusted, as she was highly competitive and ambitious, and even though she was only 16, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. Who was she though? Her name was Annie Wan and her plan was to have a 4.0 GPA, get a perfect SAT score and move out. She put a lot of thought into it, you might say, but if you knew what kind of life she was forced to accept, how every single day of her existence was a struggle,
Apparently, she had been out for about 40 minutes, even though she had no idea how this might have happened, since it felt like she only unconscious for about a minute or so. She tried to get up, but she saw that her arm was connected to an IV. She pressed the red button, which she figured was there so that the patient can call a nurse. A pleasant woman with blonde hair and brown eyes came to her room almost immediately, asking her if she was okay. All the girl cared about though was her mother, so she refused to answer any questions about herself until the nurse decides to give her the information she
One of the themes that is developing is the loss of innocence as they stop acting like the children they are after crashing on the island. This is similar to what Klingova’s character Annie is going through because even though she is not forced to live on an island, life keeps sending her storms – her father’s death, her mother’s drug addiction, social services, etc. In both cases, however, the theme is of great importance for the development of the characters and their actions further on in the future. Another theme, which makes the two pieces similar is children, who are left without parental supervision and how this affects their life choices. In Lord of the Flies, the children are initially happy that no parents are taking care of them but later on the readers realize that the lack of supervision on the island is one of the main reasons, they turn their backs on civilization. In Milena Klingova’s short story, Annie is not happy when nobody takes care of her; exactly the opposite, she needs her mother’s comfort and a father figure in her life, but she realizes that she can’t have either of those, so she takes control of her faith and starts to figure out what she needs to do in order to make her better. One of the major differences though is that in the untitled story,