Organdonation: novelleanalyse og personlig holdning

In this world there are things that can be controlled and there are thing which we cannot control. Often if we want something we are not I charge over, we pray. We pray to God, that he will give it to us. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. We are not in control over our lives, but we can decide want we want to do while we live.

This story is about a family of five; the father Frank Randall, the three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark, and the mother. The mother gets pregnant with their fourth child but after having given birth to three boys, she so heartily wants it to be a girl. Unfortunately for her and lucky for the father it is yet another boy. I can understand why the mother wants another girl in the house. I think I would probably feel the same way she does, living alone with four men. Even though Nicky or Nick, the last born, is not a girl the mother still favours him and let him do what ever he wants. She treats him like her wish about having a girl almost has come true. Nicky is very special to her and that is why she cannot decide upon if she should let the doctors take his heart or not. The accident really shows how much the mother loves Nicky. I have no doubt that if it was one of the other boy who ended up brain dead and the doctors ask if they could use is hear for donation, she would sign the papers quicker than she did with Nicky. We also see how she reacts after having given permeation to take his heart. She is a complete other person, who cannot find rest, because she does not know where “Nicky” is. “It was like knowing someone was missing but never knowing, finally, that they were dead .Or knowing they were dead and never knowing the whereabouts of the remains” (p.4-5, line 141-143). We all know that the heart of the person is what we think is the soul, and if Nicky had been buried with his heart, the mother might be the same mother she had always been. By knowing that her son’s heart is in someone else’s body somewhere else in the country, she keeps being worried because of the uncertainty. To her it is like having a son or a girl somewhere she does not know, and neither who they are or what they are doing.