Exercise B: An Analytical Essay on “Same Same Different”
A twin sister is a doppelgänger of yourself, though some sisters’ personalities can also be alike. There is distinction between them which leads to envy between the two sisters. The narrator in the short story “Same Same Different” written by Anne Hayden (2016) tries to overcome the fact that her perfect twin sister died and now, she has to find own place in the world.
The story is told by a first person narrator. The narrator is a she, and her nationality is originally Irish. The narrator had a twin sister, unfortunately she died in a car accident at the age of 21. After her sister’s death the narrator moved to Melbourne, Australia, in order to start anew. However, her past still …show more content…
In the introduction we hear about the two sisters talk about a boyband: “Molly would get Luke and I’d have to settle for his less handsome brother Matt.” (p8, l. 11-12). According to the narrator, Molly is way better than she, since Molly apparently automatically gets most handsome man. It makes the narrator look vulnerable and unsure about her own qualities. Moreover, the narrator envies her sister for being more popular than her, in addition Molly also has a boyfriend while the narrator doesn’t. When Molly died, her story was in several newspapers, and the narrator comments that with “[Molly] was the one who wanted to be famous” (p.8, l.13). However, this is false. It is the narrator herself who seeks attention and acknowledgement because she feels disregarded. In the introduction the narrator listens to the song called, “When Will I Be Famous?”. It shows how she is waiting for her turn to take over the …show more content…
It is built up around the narrator’s emotional development on her view on Molly. In the introduction the narrator hides her past, including her death twin sister. When she leaves the café she thinks back at the summer Molly died, in those flashbacks we are presented to the two sisters’ relation to each other. The narrator also tells about her life in Australia, and how she hasn’t made any real friends due to her wariness about telling people about her past: “I’m sure they can sense my cautiousness, in the same way that I can tell when my friends at home are minding what they say around me” (p.11. l.115) The narrator is in a bad circle where she keeps lying about her dead sister. Nevertheless, she realises later on that people won’t become friends with her, if she keeps secrets from them, especially when the secret has a great impact on her life. This revelation makes the narrator find her identity. She accepts that her dead sister is a part of her identity and that cannot be denied any longer. After the discovering, she is rewarded with attention from a guy, this time for her being herself and not pretending to be her sister. In the end, the narrator wants to return to Ireland, at the same time she wants to change her look back to what is was before. The narrator has found her
A twin sister is a doppelgänger of yourself, though some sisters’ personalities can also be alike. There is distinction between them which leads to envy between the two sisters. The narrator in the short story “Same Same Different” written by Anne Hayden (2016) tries to overcome the fact that her perfect twin sister died and now, she has to find own place in the world.
The story is told by a first person narrator. The narrator is a she, and her nationality is originally Irish. The narrator had a twin sister, unfortunately she died in a car accident at the age of 21. After her sister’s death the narrator moved to Melbourne, Australia, in order to start anew. However, her past still …show more content…
In the introduction we hear about the two sisters talk about a boyband: “Molly would get Luke and I’d have to settle for his less handsome brother Matt.” (p8, l. 11-12). According to the narrator, Molly is way better than she, since Molly apparently automatically gets most handsome man. It makes the narrator look vulnerable and unsure about her own qualities. Moreover, the narrator envies her sister for being more popular than her, in addition Molly also has a boyfriend while the narrator doesn’t. When Molly died, her story was in several newspapers, and the narrator comments that with “[Molly] was the one who wanted to be famous” (p.8, l.13). However, this is false. It is the narrator herself who seeks attention and acknowledgement because she feels disregarded. In the introduction the narrator listens to the song called, “When Will I Be Famous?”. It shows how she is waiting for her turn to take over the …show more content…
It is built up around the narrator’s emotional development on her view on Molly. In the introduction the narrator hides her past, including her death twin sister. When she leaves the café she thinks back at the summer Molly died, in those flashbacks we are presented to the two sisters’ relation to each other. The narrator also tells about her life in Australia, and how she hasn’t made any real friends due to her wariness about telling people about her past: “I’m sure they can sense my cautiousness, in the same way that I can tell when my friends at home are minding what they say around me” (p.11. l.115) The narrator is in a bad circle where she keeps lying about her dead sister. Nevertheless, she realises later on that people won’t become friends with her, if she keeps secrets from them, especially when the secret has a great impact on her life. This revelation makes the narrator find her identity. She accepts that her dead sister is a part of her identity and that cannot be denied any longer. After the discovering, she is rewarded with attention from a guy, this time for her being herself and not pretending to be her sister. In the end, the narrator wants to return to Ireland, at the same time she wants to change her look back to what is was before. The narrator has found her