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God´s lift is out of order
The beauty of emotions is those unforgettable moments with profound happiness, passion and lust, but there is a dark contrast filled of emptiness, loneliness and hardship. Emotions can take you to highest mountains of desire, but emotions can also take you to lowest valleys of emptiness and loneliness. The narrator in the short story “God´s lift is out of order” experiences though a childhood friend´s suicide.
The two main characters of the story are the female narrator; I reckon it is a female narrator due to the fact that she is in love with Ed. The other main character is named Aaron, who is a childhood friend of the female narrator. The story starts in media res with the narrator´s dream about Aaron. In her dream Aaron is falling though the sky with armed stretched, screaming her name. Therefore she cannot get him off her mind. About two weeks after the dream on Christmas Eve the narrator is getting ready for a big birthday party. When she stumbles upon a Valentine’s Day card from Aaron, but does not have the time to read it. This is significant; because a Valentine´s day card is given to someone you have strong feelings for - at least according to popular American TV-shows. So Aaron was perhaps thinking of her as more than just a close friend or had been hiding his true feelings in fear of rejection or interfering with the narrators and Ed´s relationship. Later, when the narrator arrives at the party, she meets Kevin, who asks her if she has heard what happened to Aaron. Kevin, not realising that the narrator does not know anything, tells her that Aaron has committed suicide.
The first-person narrator of the story is a girl, a black girl from Jamaica who lives in England. She has a boyfriend, Ed, who she is in love with, but even though he is mentioned in the story, the most significant male character is by far Aaron. The

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