Summary Of The Short Story 'Pretending To Know The Words'

The short story ”Pretending to Know the Words” is about finding your identity. It’s about finding out who you are as a person and who you want to be. In the search of finding your identity you will hopefully end up being conscious about yourself and your manner. Finding our identity is our own responsibility and it’s a personal development. In this short story we are introduced to Luis and Recoba, they are both trying to find their true identity and it is seen through Luis who has al-ways dreamed about being a successful foot ballplayer, which he has achieved but yet he is still miserable. The short story begins with Luis point of view. He
Luis is watching football and suddenly a guy named Recoba is applauded in the TV. We think that Luis and Recoba are related, but actually they are the same person, which we find out in the end of the short story. Helen Cooper’s narrative technique is a bit odd because she has a lot of plot twist in the story and some kind of foreshadowing. The plot twist is that we think that Luis and Recoba are two different people and just related to each other. In the end it becomes clear to us that they are the same individual. Helen Cooper uses foreshadowing because the two characters are connected. The fact that they seem to be two different persons, but have some similarities is as a matter of fact foreshadowing. They are both in some kind of process in finding their identity and can’t seem to be satisfied. This gives us some kind of hint that they are connected, because they remind of each other. “RecoBA RecoBA RecoBA. An image of Luis burst into his mind. Sitting on a leather so-fa, looking as blank as