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Analysis Of Ice Break

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What is underneath the surface won´t stay there forever, at some point it will break out. Family difficulties, love, sacrifice and a sense of guilt and hidden problems, is some of the themes in the short story; “Ice Break” from 2012, it is written by the Canadian writer Astrid Blodgett. The short story is from the anthology “The Journey Prize Stories 24”. In the short story we meet the main character, Dawn. Dawn is going ice fishing with her dad and sister and their uncle. But they never made it to their uncles, they´re driving on the lake filled with ice, when the ice breaks and the car fell in. Dawn survived the drowning, but her father and sister Janie didn’t make it. The short story is told through Dawns point of view and that makes …show more content…

Dawn is afraid of that somebody will find the five-dollar bill in the Janie’s pocket, because then they will know that she was tempted to go with them, and then Dawn might be afraid that she will be blamed for “tricking her sister into the death”. The mother might also feel some guilt, because she kind off pressed Dawn to go with her father ice fishing, but luckily Dawn survived the accident, unlike her father and sister. Aunt Helen had warned them to go ice fishing so late in the season, because the ice was rotten. Dawn overheard a conversation with her mother and Aunt Helen, about that her mother was mad at Uncle Rick and her husband, for going ice fishing, even though it was late in the season. That might also be a reaction the mother had because she lost one of her kids, and I could imagine that losing your child must be the hardest thing you could possibly go through. Dawn always saw her father as a grumpy man, but he really loved his kids, because when they were under the water he tried to do anything to save his children before himself. Janie was only nine years old, and Dawn couldn’t be much older or younger, since she could persuade her sister with five-dollars to go with her on the trip. The title Ice Breaks has different meanings, both that they break through the ice, and the little family reduced from 5 till 3 persons but it is also a symbol of how there is much more beneath the surface, it hides the problems the family has to deal with every single

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