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Analysis Of The Best Possible Light By Melissa Bank

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Today we live in a lost world. We live in a Utopia society, where everything is imaginary and perfect. But is that the truth. Can we live in a world without war, conflicts, and disasters? Have we lost the truth of the reality, have we lost our minds to think, and the ability to be realistic? In the short story "The best Possible Light" by Melissa Bank, I will focus on elements such as the narrator, title, and Barney.

This story was first published in 1999 and explains how a family is dealing with a huge moral. In the start of the story, do we get presented to Barney, the main character lives in Chicago? "Barney shows up out of nowhere at his mother 's house and brought a woman with him, named Laurel" (p.1/L.1-2) This is how this short story

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