Analysis Of Are We Nearly There

Choices is something you must take through life. It is not always easy or funny, but it is necessary. Sometimes you make the right choice, sometimes you make the wrong. Often you cannot see it was the wrong choice you have taken, before it is to late change it. The main character in “Are We Nearly There?” must make a choice, but she does not think enough about the consequences. Because of that she puts her family in unnecessary danger. The short story “Are We Nearly There” is written by Kate Smalley Ellis. It is about Jen who drives home to her grandparent for the first time, and her family are in the car. The night before Jen got drunk, and the alcohol is still in her body.
Jen is a seventeen years old girl. Her parents think that she is …show more content…
The other choice will bring her family and herself in danger. She chooses to drive, which brings her family in danger, instead of being honest with her parents. In the car is her mother, father and her younger sister who is childish. This shows that she makes the wrong decision and she is irresponsible. This is something she realize when she thinks “I shouldn’t have my whole family’s lives in my shaky, hang-over, no-longer-virgin hands.” The night before she lost her virginity to Simon, and it did not live up to her expectations. “It’s not that it blew my mind. It didn’t. I don’t even think I came. He said he loved me and I said “Oh” and peeled my stomach away from his.” She has high expectations to her first time, when she believes that she would come the first time. When Simon tell her that he loves her, her reaction is cold, and her feelings is not reciprocated. Simon is most likely in love with Jen. That is at least what he tells her, but he is also drunk when he tells it. Because of that it is hard to know if he tells the truth or if he just says that because he is drunk. According to Jen he has a sensitive side. Which is a contrast to