Because It Is Running By By Jo Lloyd

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se it is Running By

Most people have once in their lifetime stood in the dilemma whether to leave their save place and expiring new things or to just stay. This is because most people in some point of their lives get tired of where they are standing and want to break free from their normal habits. It is a big decision to choose between leaving or not, because most people do not want to go through stuff were you have to fight for it but they only want things to be easier. Some of these points is raised in the short story “Because it is Running By” which is written by Jo Lloyd in 2009.
The short story is about a young man named Wil, his Mother and the young woman Edie. Wil and his mother lives on a farm and together they drive a Bed and Breakfast. The mother says to Wil that she needs help and hire a young woman named Edie to help out the Bed and
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Edie is a very closed person and tells nothing about her background, relationships or her family while Wil is talking about his earlier life and his dads death, that make them a big opposite. Edie has lived in London all her life and she is a city girl and Wil has always lived on the farm and he feels at home there. Also in the text we hear that after she has helped the family out across the summer she wants to travel the world, and she has planned to travel to Morocco, while Wil just want to stay at the farm tacking care of the bed and breakfast and taking care of his mother.
Text 2: "No Thread to Follow" by Andrew Philip, is about to find the right path in life. The text is kind of a metaphor for what Wil go through in "Because it is Running By". It says, for example in text 2 "Looking for the way to centres? There's no thread to follow, Pilgrim.. " Which symbolize Wil, who do not really know where he should go. He does not know if he wants to stay at the farm with his mother or to travel and experience the world with

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