Felicity

”Felicity” is a short story, which centres on the changes happening in a young girls life in a short time. It depicts on very few lines, how Felicity a young and hopeful girl college dream is shattered, when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, and she and her boyfriend have to make the difficult choice of choosing their future in college or to raise a child together. Felicity gets to feel how it is to be adult, when she moves away from home, and the sudden realisation of her pregnancy.

This conflicted story seems to take place in 90’s, where our main character Felicity, whom is living in Los Angeles with her parents, is leaving for Boston for school.
Felicity is a young and innocent girl, who is living in California. Felicity is trying to make her own decision in the story, but she is fragile and new to the adult world. She thinks marriage will solve the problems she is experiencing.
Leaving for Boston soon, she could not stop thinking of Brian, her boyfriend. Felicity loved Brian. Brian was also the one to take Felicity’s virginity, leading to her pregnancy, before her leaving for Boston. The two love each other, both before and after the unwanted accident. Brian offers Felicity marriage and she accepts.
In Boston Felicity is living with her friend Holly, who is the same age has her, and while Holly likes to screw around with boys, while she had a boyfriend, Felicity likes to sit in her dorm room listening to rock on a FM-channel, so she could seal Holly’s moaning out. Felicity likes Holly, and Holly is with Felicity when her she is late.
Felicity’s mother and father are trying to convince their daughter, about the consequences and the hard future, Felicity’s and Brian’s decision will lead to. Felicity wants to believe, that she and Brian can handle the burden of a child, but her parents wisdom and experience is convincing her to go against her own decision.
This got Brian to listening to them. He was split. Brian did not want do make felicity miserable, but he seemed relieved, when Felicity’s parent told them, how their idea of a family, would not work right now.
“Felicity” focuses around the hard decision many young girls around in the world have to make. Felicity has her family and friends by her side, and her parents have enough money for both an abortion and college in Boston. There is also one theme about love between humans. The young and confused love between Felicity and Brian, and the love between children and parents .The fear of pregnancy, the most natural thing in human nature, and how it can scare a human being as much as it does in “Felicity”, is one of the messages this short story is trying to tell. Also the comfort and guidance one can get in a family means a lot to the story and to Felicity.