How Lucky You Are Debi Alper Analysis

Do you ever stop for a second to think about how lucky you are? Or do you just take everything in life for granted. You see Max doesn’t stop for a second to remember how lucky he is, until he meets Ishraqi, a parentless girl from Iran, whom is hoping to get a better future in The Great Britain. The short story ‘’ How lucky you are’’ is written by Debi Alper and was published in 2010. It’s about a teenage boy named Max. Max father left him for some years ago, the whole family has been having problems especially Max ever since he left. Max’s mother didn’t take the fact that her husband left her that easy, in fact she has been crying tears at night, ever since the day he left. When Max meets Ishraqi, it was love at first sight, though he’s a bit

We get to know when Max’s father left the family and for what reason, which is because he had to ‘’find himself’’. Max hates his father for leaving the family, and for putting his mother through a hard time with Max. Max mother has cried tears ever since Max’s father left. The story takes place in the Southern London in Croydon where Max and his mother live. They live near the UK Border Agency in Croydon Town Centre, and the UK Border Agency becomes the central setting in the short story. The story the area where the main action takes place is illustrated as grey and without much color and “life”. The building of the UK Border Agency is a large building made of concrete, which also makes the atmosphere at the building a sad and grey environment, without much sky. Max is a student at the creative ‘’Brit school’’, but he doesn’t really appreciate that he is a student at the school. Max is a sixteen years old teenage boy who uses a lot of slang during the day, and smokes homemade cigarettes and bunks of school. Max looks like a bully on the outside, he doesn’t care about other people unless they have a certain effect in his life and his a kind of rude when it comes to his mother as he tells that she always ‘’ talks crap’’ but actually she only wants him the best and tries to raise him as a caring person with a lot of self responsibility. But one morning his point of

While Max and Ishraqi is alone they learn each other better to know, in fact so much that Max already gets his first kiss on the exact day they meet each other. While they’re in a bus Ishraqi tells Max , that when she first came to England, she was shocked by the nature and the rights for each sex to wear whatever they like. She tells about how strange it was to be able to choose if she was to wear a hat or not. Or jeans. Or a short skirt. Max didn’t really have that much knowledge about how girls dress up in iran so he didn’t really know why she was shocked about being able to choose the clothes she wanted to wear. So she told him that in iran she couldn’t leave the house without being covered from head to toes. And that until she came to England none outside her family house and closest girlfriends had even seen her hair. Max begins to move closer to Ishraqi, he even begins to say sweet things about how pretty her hair and eyes. And as they start kissing and getting all romantic they get, interrupted by a phone call by Alexis, that meant Ishraqi needed to head back and get into her meeting at the asylum center. The third part is when they get back to the asylum center Alexis, Max and even Ishraqi knows that there is a huge chance for her request for seeking residence in England can be rejected and that she can be sent back to iran.