An Essay on: Flotsam and Jetsam
Traveling is part of the human’s method to put everything on a pause. From the day, humans thought themselves to inhabit on every continent. We may travel for many reasons, from letting every responsibilities away, to a business trip or to feel alive. The Western contrary are known from many things, especially ‘’ desperation ‘’, a feeling of loneness and knowing that nothing matter. ‘’Flotsam and Jetsam’’ is an short story appeared in the collection Elsewhere in 2012, written by Alan Bissett. The title is a name that definitely request attention to itself. The newspaper is published in the elsewhere; in the Western countries and one must for that reason assume that the article is a name that will cause attention to the Westerners, for the reason that wester needs a vacation once in a while. The short story is about a girl called Kate, she is girl who struggles with fact, of being asked too much to buy snorkeling tours. Having this limit of not saying anything …show more content…
By the fourth, she was lying about which hotel she was in. By the fifth, she was saying that her flight was later that day.’’ (P.4 l. 78)
Kate is girl from Scotland and on a trip in Zanzibar. She is girl, who enjoys long walks on the beach; it’s a place where she feel comfortable, a place where she does not think about her life, a place where the thought of Britain cutting the public sector is not welcomed. On her trip, she feels embarrassed of being treated like a rich person, because she does not fell the same: ‘’ I fell a bit guilty. As though I’ve floated like this rich westerner’’ (l.151-152)
The fact that we only know that she is on a trip makes it easier to relate to a person like her. We have not been able to judge her, for the reason that we do not have anything to base it on. On the other hand, we are told how she reacts when, two people asks her to go on a snorkeling
Traveling is part of the human’s method to put everything on a pause. From the day, humans thought themselves to inhabit on every continent. We may travel for many reasons, from letting every responsibilities away, to a business trip or to feel alive. The Western contrary are known from many things, especially ‘’ desperation ‘’, a feeling of loneness and knowing that nothing matter. ‘’Flotsam and Jetsam’’ is an short story appeared in the collection Elsewhere in 2012, written by Alan Bissett. The title is a name that definitely request attention to itself. The newspaper is published in the elsewhere; in the Western countries and one must for that reason assume that the article is a name that will cause attention to the Westerners, for the reason that wester needs a vacation once in a while. The short story is about a girl called Kate, she is girl who struggles with fact, of being asked too much to buy snorkeling tours. Having this limit of not saying anything …show more content…
By the fourth, she was lying about which hotel she was in. By the fifth, she was saying that her flight was later that day.’’ (P.4 l. 78)
Kate is girl from Scotland and on a trip in Zanzibar. She is girl, who enjoys long walks on the beach; it’s a place where she feel comfortable, a place where she does not think about her life, a place where the thought of Britain cutting the public sector is not welcomed. On her trip, she feels embarrassed of being treated like a rich person, because she does not fell the same: ‘’ I fell a bit guilty. As though I’ve floated like this rich westerner’’ (l.151-152)
The fact that we only know that she is on a trip makes it easier to relate to a person like her. We have not been able to judge her, for the reason that we do not have anything to base it on. On the other hand, we are told how she reacts when, two people asks her to go on a snorkeling