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Be Here Now By Miguel Syjuco Summary

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Be Here Now Experiences always have a mark on people who experience something. Some people have a bad experience and some a good experience. Especially bad experiences can make you act different (correct: differently) in specific situations were the person look back upon something unpleasant for instance if the person experienced war. Bad flashbacks to an unpleasant experience can cause traumatic stress that has a big impact to who it may concern. Occasionally the person will not act or be like you remember the person and therefore it also has a big influence on the closest relatives around the vulnerable person. This subject is showed in Miguel Syjuco’s short story “Be Here Now” that is from the anthology ‘Elsewhere: Here’ and published in …show more content…

The narrator tells us about his life and thoughts and that makes the story much more personal and emotional to read. As the reader of the story you get access to the narrator’s mind and therefore also access to his side of the situation. The title of the short story ‘Be Here Now’ is a little atypical if you interpret it as if you usually are very absent, as the narrator in the story is, and then has to be more present in the feature. The other way to interpret the title is that ‘be here now’ means that you have to live in the present moment and forget the past to move on. The title has a meaning to the narrator, because if he wants to move on and get a healthier life, he has to forget the past and live with his fiancé in the present moment and not by his memory. In the end of the short story he says: “I search the crayons in my pencil case until I find a blue one. […] I colour over the yellow. […] I finish redoing the eye. It’s now green.” This ending can be a symbol of him painting his new life and trying to start over and forget about the war. The green color of the eye that he is painting is a symbol of hope and rescue. This can mean that there is hope for the narrator and that he is being rescued from his stressed and meaningless life to start on living a new one with his fiancée Jenna in their new

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