A: Fusilli

At some point in life, we’ve most likely all experienced either a good or a bad drastic life changing experience. That moment when you reach a point of no return, and you’ll never truly be able to go back to how things used to be before this event. Sometimes these incidents can be rather ravaging, but it’s something we all go through in life, at one point or another. The occurrences of life changing events, is just what the short story “Fusilli” deals with, as it portrays the devastating event of losing someone you love.
The short story was written in 2014, by the British writer, Graham Swift, who was awarded the Booker Prize in 1996.
The composition of the short story highly reflects the main character’s feelings and thoughts, as we hear about the fathers feelings and memories about his dead son, but it also highlights the atmosphere of the story.
The story starts out in the present, as we hear about the father walking around in the supermarket, whereas it quickly moves into a flashback, as he starts to think back to the time where his son called him from Afghanistan.
Throughout the story the narrator goes back and forth between the present time and the flashbacks, which also creates a kind of chaotic atmosphere. As the father is clearly in a confused and ravaging state of mind too, this makes it easier for the reader to relate to the father’s feelings and frustrations.
The storyline seems to last a long time, because of the many flashbacks, whereas it actually doesn’t expand over a longer period of time. The only actions the father actually perform in the present time, is walking through the supermarket. Therefore, it can be estimated that the actual time frame of the story, only evolves somewhere within an hour.
Throughout the story it is shown how big of a transformation the father, who is the main character, goes through.
Before the story