Analyse af Debi Alpers novelle 'how lucky you are'

Appreciation can be a lot of things. Appreciation is something everyone can show. Some show it more than others and many do not know, how to appreciate things and take things for granted. Appreciation is an individual thing, it is different from person to person, and it is something we all want to show, but not everyone knows how. This is one of the themes Debi Alper deals with in her short story “how lucky you are”

Max is a 16-year-old teenage boy, who lives in Croydon, 10 miles or so, from London. Max is a bit of a rebel. “Dan Stood at the door of the bus, Glaring at Max. “You can’t bunk of, he objected. “We’ve got a maths assessment today.” “Which, you twat, is the exact reason why I’m bunking of.” Max changed when his father left him and his mother to go travel and explore himself. Max had started at a fine art school, which he loved at the start. “This time last year, he’d been full of enthusiasm for his new school. Until the day he came home to find a bulging rucksack sitting in the hallway.” Then his father left, and Max started smoking, he began to hate his new school and started to bunk off, which his teachers thought was a shame because of his creative mind, even though his mother had always told him it was twisted.These comments are not comments you would want from your parents. These negative remarks have made their relationship tense, but the fact that Max is a teenage boy, makes him unwilling to talk about his emotions with his mother.