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Skribentens beskrivelse af Essay on 'Crossing'ESSAY ON ’CROSSING’ Rebuilding a broken relationship can be very hard to do. This is what the main character in Mark Slouka’s short story “Crossing” from 2009 intends to do when he takes his young son out camping in the wilderness. But in his efforts to cross the emotional distance between them, he may end up killing his own son as he miscalculates the current of the river, they have to cross. Will this crossing and his own miscalculations and lack of strength bring their relationship to a fatal end? In the short story the father is the main character. We don’t know how old the father is, but we know he have a son and he isn’t together with the mother to the son anymore, ”He sat in the driveway for a while looking at the yard… For a long time he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything...Lignende opgaver |