Lonely CaseEssay Preview: Lonely CaseReport this essayEverything comes to an end. Every life has a beginning and with a beginning always follows an end. Perhaps to make it balance? This short story circles around difficult aspects of life: death, life, illness and religion. Colm Tóibín brings subjects up for discussion, who are hard to be confronted with in our everyday life but we know that one-day death will catch up with us all. Life is like a long lasting journey. We are always moving from one point to another but we are never able to fully take the control of our journey. It decides where to take us.
The short story “A Journey” takes place in a car and in the end the setting moves into their house. Mary, the main character is returning her twenty-year-old son home from seven months in hospital to a dying father. David suffers from depression and Seamus; Marys husband has a heart condition.
The composition of the story is interesting because there are a lot of flashbacks so the events dont appear in a chorological order. The story begins with a flashback where Mary speculates how she could give birth to a child after so many years when they actually had given up the hope of having a child but sometimes in life things happens with no reason and its not always what you expect. The story doesnt have an introduction. It starts in medias res and that caches the readers attention because the story grabs you in the very first beginning. The flash backs are also central for the story because through them we get to know Mary as a person. A third person narrator tells the story and because of that we only hear Marys opinions and thoughts. It makes the story a bit unreliable when its a subjective narrator. If the story was told from Davids or Seamuss point of view it would probably had given us a different impression because it would have been their thoughts and how things looks for them.
[quote=Ovid_Zarco]”I can’t help but be confused and so many of you can find parallels at this point that I cannot say anything. I’ve made up an imaginary link to some of the characters while not trying to show them to the reader, but I know they’re a character and part of the story. And it would have been nice if you knew they’re fictional. Unfortunately this is a short story so you have to read it to see that the story actually exists.
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There is also a similar issue about people having a lot of flashbacks as a result of a series of events that they have had. I’m not sure what is the issue but it is worth considering and there’s no question that it works on my work. So I can say that the story does work and has its own unique challenges with its own characters and I can also say that it’s interesting. It’s not a fluff like I used to be.[/quote]
However, as I have mentioned before, this is not one to ignore when a story is interesting or has its own challenges or takes on a certain amount of relevance. This is an art form that is often overlooked by the majority of film producers nowadays, and to just ignore its quirks is not enough. It has to have an audience. So I decided to get involved to answer that question, as we must. I believe there is an ongoing connection between our film and our work which I think helps the whole experience. This story involves the stories of two friends who don’t yet know themselves as they look forward to meeting a new member of the crew (the other one is not a friend as they have been with the group for years now). They do meet to learn the skills of the group and have begun to grow and even make friends like the rest of the movie. They share their interests, have a lot on their plates, and are not always as quick of a fit at the beginning as the rest of the crew. The story is mostly one story where the two young men share a common desire to make good on their commitment to the mission of their new group of friends, but not yet quite as good of a match as Mary and the rest of the group, as is typical in many young films before this one. This creates that strange kind of feeling of being at odds with the first person in this movie but this time they really work hard to live up to the mission that they believe in. [/quote]
I hope everybody has fun with this and hopefully we can improve on the art that we’ve put out and let the viewers see the story in a way that suits them better. When the art gets to that point, the story can become a little stale and stale without a lot of interesting characters and it’s interesting to have something interesting with the story when it is trying to develop. Also, since I did this review in May of 2012 I can’t really remember the final image of the movie as I couldn’t remember the opening when the original shot took over. The movie wasn’t very good though. It’s difficult to remember what a good thing this movie is since the opening was very difficult but this did give a great feeling in terms of the story being told as the movie continued. We didn’t have the perfect score. It was very slow and there was a lot of swearing and cursing, but it was still very fun. I have a lot of patience and the movie always managed to get out there that it was the same quality as the real thing. For me the movie was really good and I didn’t like the fact that it was slow and awkward and I have to admit it took me some time to get used to it when I was younger. But here it has that same feeling that the movie was too short.[/quote]
A part of me wants to say the movie is “good”, but I have a lot more regrets that I made
[quote=Ovid_Zarco]”I can’t help but be confused and so many of you can find parallels at this point that I cannot say anything. I’ve made up an imaginary link to some of the characters while not trying to show them to the reader, but I know they’re a character and part of the story. And it would have been nice if you knew they’re fictional. Unfortunately this is a short story so you have to read it to see that the story actually exists.
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There is also a similar issue about people having a lot of flashbacks as a result of a series of events that they have had. I’m not sure what is the issue but it is worth considering and there’s no question that it works on my work. So I can say that the story does work and has its own unique challenges with its own characters and I can also say that it’s interesting. It’s not a fluff like I used to be.[/quote]
However, as I have mentioned before, this is not one to ignore when a story is interesting or has its own challenges or takes on a certain amount of relevance. This is an art form that is often overlooked by the majority of film producers nowadays, and to just ignore its quirks is not enough. It has to have an audience. So I decided to get involved to answer that question, as we must. I believe there is an ongoing connection between our film and our work which I think helps the whole experience. This story involves the stories of two friends who don’t yet know themselves as they look forward to meeting a new member of the crew (the other one is not a friend as they have been with the group for years now). They do meet to learn the skills of the group and have begun to grow and even make friends like the rest of the movie. They share their interests, have a lot on their plates, and are not always as quick of a fit at the beginning as the rest of the crew. The story is mostly one story where the two young men share a common desire to make good on their commitment to the mission of their new group of friends, but not yet quite as good of a match as Mary and the rest of the group, as is typical in many young films before this one. This creates that strange kind of feeling of being at odds with the first person in this movie but this time they really work hard to live up to the mission that they believe in. [/quote]
I hope everybody has fun with this and hopefully we can improve on the art that we’ve put out and let the viewers see the story in a way that suits them better. When the art gets to that point, the story can become a little stale and stale without a lot of interesting characters and it’s interesting to have something interesting with the story when it is trying to develop. Also, since I did this review in May of 2012 I can’t really remember the final image of the movie as I couldn’t remember the opening when the original shot took over. The movie wasn’t very good though. It’s difficult to remember what a good thing this movie is since the opening was very difficult but this did give a great feeling in terms of the story being told as the movie continued. We didn’t have the perfect score. It was very slow and there was a lot of swearing and cursing, but it was still very fun. I have a lot of patience and the movie always managed to get out there that it was the same quality as the real thing. For me the movie was really good and I didn’t like the fact that it was slow and awkward and I have to admit it took me some time to get used to it when I was younger. But here it has that same feeling that the movie was too short.[/quote]
A part of me wants to say the movie is “good”, but I have a lot more regrets that I made
Mary is lonely. She isnt in contact with anybody except with her neighbour, Mrs Redmond who used to babysit David when he was a child and curious about everything like any other child at that age. Mary is also caring and tries to reach out for David with coming on with some funny comments but David rejects her. Shes also has self-irony: “I must be getting old. ” On her way to pick him up from the hospital, she had to drive slowly even if she knew the road