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Because It Is Running by by Jo Llloyd

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Because it is running
We all dream. We yearn for that day where we will turn our lives around. We think of how unbreakably we will love, how fierce we will be, and how our lives will never be the same dull grey mass floating around in all eternity without anyone ever really noticing us or remembering us. But no matter how much and how hard we dream, these dreams rarely come true because in our tedious existence we have something maybe even more important than the perfect body, social circle, opinions etc.: We have security.
The yearning for changes is the main focus of the short story Because It Is Running By by Jo Lloyd. There is a kind of omniscient 3rd person narrator which gives us an impression of the characters but on the same time …show more content…

The title is also very noteworthy. The title has a certain passivity to it because it seems that whatever it is that is running by, is out of your control. So all that can be done is watching it without ever being able to stop or interfere with it. Usually sentences that start with the word ‘because’ are an answer to something so having a title start with that word makes it very intriguing because the reader gets curios and wishes to know the question. At the nature of this question we can only guess but since the theme of the short story seems to be how humans are desperate to change their lives but still unable to do so it could be that the thing that is running by might be life. Life is something that humans in general have no control of and one’s life was created without your consent and it will also be taking without it. All humans can do is trying to follow it and live life it to the fullest.
But it might also be happiness that is running by, just like Edie ran by and past Wil. It is also mentioned that she might be on the run from something like on page 2 line 72 and also at the very end on page 5 lines 176-177. Edie’s answer to whether she thinks she will be safe from the FBI in Marrakesh is also striking: “Turns out they’re everywhere, she said.” It is highly unlikely that she is actually running away from the FBI so ‘they’ must be someone else, like lovers that she runs

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