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Summary Of 60 Minutes By Brian Caswell

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Would you like to relive 60 minutes of your life over again? Are there things that you have done that you would like to undo? Well Award winning author, Brian Caswell, born in 1954 in Wales studied at the University of Sydney created an interesting and thought provoking short story called ’60 minutes’. In his story, Caswell uses character development, setting and theme to share his ideas and questions about various issues. The main purpose of his story was to encourage the audience to ponder life after death, regret and forgiveness. Caswell character development is a key feature of his writing. He has created characters that are relatable and realistic. Brian Caswell described the characters in the short story ‘60 minutes’, in detail as a strong, and durable creating a clear image of each. There are three main characters in the story Jason, the angel (Gabriel) and …show more content…

First beginning in the present then the past then back to the present. Caswell begin the story in the present with Jason floating over his bed in the hospital watching himself, confused why he should be in the hospital where Gabriel shows up and explains what is happening telling him he is in a coma. Gabriel then give Jason a chose of whether he wants to go to the good past or to the bad where he would have to face his sister. Jason choses the bad past where he is confronted with the death of his sister and see what happened. The story then goes back to the present in the hospital, but then back to Jason house where he is a paraplegic in a wheel chair and his sister is alive. This is where he is faced with his sister to discuss about her death, here they talk about Rachel death and how Rachel says “it wasn’t you fault”. Jason is feeling happy that his sister now alive and that he survived the car crash but he is also upset that is now paraplegic and that all the trophies and all his achievement do no longer

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