In Syria millions of people are on the run, headed for Europe to find security. ISIS has forced men, women and children to flee the country. Tutor and violence mark the daily life in Syria, and still thousand of Syrians is deny admission in countries all over Europe. These people, standing outside our door with no hope for a happy life – they are the unlucky people, all the while we, the ones standing inside with roofs over our heads, we of course, are the lucky people. We don’t even notice this, while the stressful everyday passes by, we take it all for granted. Until we meet someone who shows us how lucky we really are.
An experience like this Max gets, the day he decide not to go to school in the short story by Debi Alper: How lucky you are.
The short story takes place in England, Corydon. Throughout the story Max is more specific located at the UK Borders Agency, where he meets Ishraqi. The environment is described as quite cold, both at the UK Borders Agency and when Ishraqi and Max go on their small trip: “’It’s so grey… No trees and not even much sky with all these building’”(l.117). The emotionless setting brings a certain atmosphere. Through most of the text things is going quite fine for Max, but the stony setting makes the reader wonder if everything is a perfect as it seems. Which towards the end is revealed isn’t, when Ishraqi is deported to Iran.
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