Analyse af 'Fiction Machine Man'

Machine man is a short story written by Marlish Glorie. It is a fiction short story. It is a short story about a guy named Paul who decides to kidnap an old lady and make her his new mom.

The first character is Paul. We hear the story from Paul’s point of view, and he is a 1. Person narrator, because he speaks about the story as, “I”. Paul is a lonely guy. He has no family. He sees his TV as his family and his microwave as his brother. He does have 2 good friends, Black Jack and Nut. Black Jack is his boss, best friend and he owns his caravan. Nut is his coworker and a good friend. Paul has many piercings on his body and his face. He has a lot of metal sticking out of his body and his boss, Black Jack, says, “He tells me that all I need now is bolts either side of my neck and I'd look like Frankenstein”. Usually he wears a black T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Paul has no real family left. He had a mother when he was young, but he was always running away from her, maybe because she wasn’t a good mom. Paul is a very caring friend and person in all. Paul just wants to have a family, and he is desperately looking for a mum. Once Paul saw a nice lady on the television, he immediately wanted someone like her as a mum. You can tell how desperate he is when Nut makes a joke about kidnapping an old lady at the nursing home, and he actually thought about it, “That night when I was eating dinner in front of TV I got to thinking about what Nut had said. 'Go kidnap one.' I took my plate to the sink, and then went to the calendar. Soon it'd be Mother's Day”. It shows how much he wanted a mum. Paul is almost living in a dream when he decides to pick up his, “mum”. You can tell when he describes how he cleans his caravan and makes food, “That night as I lay in bed, I began to make plans for Mother's Day. I'd have to clean up the caravan. Go to Target and buy a decent dinner set. Buy a card and a present and flowers. Then I'd go to Woolies and buy a frozen dinner. But which one? I decided on shepherd's pie. I'd had it before, it was pretty runny and I knew Mum would like it”. He lives in his own world with his little family. I think I is traumatized from his childhood, from his own mother. He is searching for love and approval. You can tell when he says, “I thought about taking out the bits of metal that pierced my nose, lips, eyelids, forehead, tongue and ears, but something stopped me. Mum loved me for who I was.” He is talking about a woman who has nothing to do with him, but he wants the love and affection so much that he makes this up in his head.