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How Lucky You Are Delbi Alper Analysis

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“How Lucky You Are” it’s a short story written by Delbi Alper. It is about a boy named Max, who get meets an immigrant girl, Ishraqi. The story takes place in Gorydon, London in UK where Max lives with his mom nearby a UK Border Agency Centre. It is structured in three parts, in the beginning of the story we get directly into where Max is looking at his phone with Ishraqi and himself, which is in medias res. The second part is where we get a flashback before his father left him and his mother and in the third part is also a flashback, where we get the whole story when he gets to meet Ishraqi, and how he changes through the storyline. The story has an opened end that makes readers think about it further.
Max is a sixteen-year-old boy, who is …show more content…

“She drove him crazy with her nagging about homework and taking responsibility and all that crap” It’s something a teenager could say, because their parent irritates a little. His mother only cares about him, because he’s sixteen he needs to take responsibilities, and go to school. Luckily Ishraqi changed a bit his view of life, she’s the eye opener for Max, that he should take anything for granted, because besides his dad left him, he still got a mother who cares about him, which Ishraqi doesn’t have. In the end we get to know a bit more about the sensitive Max, when Ishraqi is on her way out of the country, he wants her to stay, he wanted to do anything for her to stay, but she couldn’t. Alexsa tell Max to move on and he should take care of him, and his school, because he has the great opportunities he shouldn’t waste “Go home to your mother. Work hard. Take your exams, Ad know always how lucky you” – It’s like she saying that he should work hard for Ishraqi, just because she doesn’t have the opportunities anymore, he should stop either. The main theme of this story is don’t take anything for granted, and always remember how lucky you are. There are a lot of people who suffers more than you, and you will never realize how harsh it really

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