Just Breathing
Just Breathing
Ill-timed encounters with torment and death will always leave one behind as a reflective and
thought full individual. "Just Breathing", which was published in 1997 in the book "Sex,
Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to end the century", deals with a woman who feels, that she has changed after a strange meeting with the woman Magde. This essay contains an analysis and an interpretation of Nina and the function Madge has in Nina's life.
The story begins quite sudden because the reader is practically thrown into the story and the
characters aren't introduced. If you take a look at the verbs in the first three lines you will see that
most of them are written in past tense. Therefore you can see that the narrator is looking
back on the story of Nina. It's unclear whether or not the narrator knows Nina, but by examining the
text furtherer it becomes more and more obvious that it is a narrator who is present in the short story. From time to time while telling the story......
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