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Short Story: Shopping For One

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1. Write down 20 key words that you find important to summarise the short story. You should include these in your assignment. Relationship - Lonely - Sad - Single - Shopping - flashbacks - Ex-boyfriend - Cooking for One - Paranoia - Judgemental - Quote - Trolley - Thoughts 2. Use the 20 key words to make a summary of the short story (max 200 words). Remember to be objective. The short story: "Shopping for One" is about a girl whose name is Jean. Jean just got out of a relationship. She is lonely, sad and single. One day, Jean decided to shop for groceries. When Jean was in the queue she got all sorts of flashbacks of her previous life, her life with her now ex-boyfriend. The two women in front of her would not stop talking about guys and …show more content…

The story focuses on Jean who just broke up with her boyfriend. The narrator is telling the short story perfectly. She describes the problems that will occur after a break-up. In this case, Jean the sad and lonely single looking for cherishment but her quest for seeking it not going the path she wants. 6. Relate [perspektivér] Shopping for One to the short stories called Clara’s Day and The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart. What do the main characters have in common and how are they different from one another? In Clara's Day we are greeted by Clara, a shy girl who did something as extreme as taking all her clothes in the school and walk casually by the school's classrooms. The similarities with these two are that they are both depressed and unhappy with their current situation in life. They are however different when it comes to their actions. Clara wanted to grab everyone's attention while Jean wanted to avoid and escape it. In The Sin bin or Lucy's Heart we have again the same scenario with the missing attention but their execution differs. Lucy went violent on her friend, Penny, to show just how loyal she was to Bethan. Jean was depressed and her life was a rollercoaster going downhill right after it peaked. Jean did harm to herself while Lucy did it damage to

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