Fate

             The word fate can have a few kinds of different meanings. You can talk about fate if something special and good unexpected happens, but also if something sad and melancholy happens. For all of us strange things do happen, they actually happen all the time. You cannot choose just the good things to happen instead of the more problematic and bad ones. Fate is nondescripted and you do not have any kind of influence. No matter what you do, fate will appear in different situations and you cannot choose where and when. This text is an example of how fate gets influence on the life of various people and how they tackle the problems and get on.
             In the short story we are following a girl and she is in her teens. Wee see most of the things from her point of view, but actually "Fate" does not give us the story from one voice, instead, every character has an opportunity to show us what is going on from her perspective. The young girl is the only one who does not face the fate, instead she tries to handle the problems for her family and for Jills, her best friend, and she is a kind of a troubleshooter.
             The story takes place in Franconia where the narrator lives with her mother. The story probably lasts a few days, but you do not get a concrete feeling of how long time the story actually is going on. This short story starts with a presentation of the house and the street where the family live. There are poplars, lilacs and a iris which the mother planted the year before when she thought she was dying, because she had been diagnosed with cancer. Then it also tells us something about the narrators best friend Jill. After this presentation the story really begins and you start at once hearing about all the bad things which is happening. The structure in this story has a main course, but there are also a flash back at the end of the story. The narrator and her best friend Jill are at the playground, and the narrator thinks about the time...

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