Analysis Of How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff

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Humans are social animals and so humans like to bond with each other which is known as shared humanity. Shared humanity is the qualities of being humane. These such qualities are relationship, loss, survival, choice, emotion, and morality. These qualities help bond humans together by sharing our experiences and learning from them. These shared humanity qualities can also be seen in literature. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff is a novel about the story of a teenage girl who moves to England. Daisy has to go live with her Aunt Penn because her step-mother Davina doesn’t want her around. Daisy strongly dislikes Davina but is never clear why. It can be assumed that Daisy doesn’t want Davina but she wants her real mom but she killed her when she was …show more content…

The kid is not fond of his brother because of this and has no sympathy for his disabilities. He names him Doodle because he believed that no one expected much from someone called Doodle. The kid tried to play with him outside but he couldn’t walk on his own and was very weak. He was getting better at walking and started to run. One day the kid and Doodle were running outside in the rain when Doodle tripped and yelled for help but the kid left him there and kept running. After a while the kid went back to get Doodle but he then realized something was wrong. When he went up to Doodle he looked at his him realized he was dead. “He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt was stained a brilliant red”(Hurst 8)) After he realized Doodle had died he experiences loss and then emotion as he begins to cry. “I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. “Doodle!” I screamed above the pounding storm and then my body fell to the Earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain”.(Hurst 8) During this scene the kid experiences emotion as he cries over his fallen brother and that he knows he could've saved him if he had came back for him. Loss and emotion are 2 of the shared humanity traits and there are even more that can happen in …show more content…

Numbers Man is seen through the eyes of an old laptop that had been replaced by a newer laptop. The laptop reminisces the memories of its former owner. One such memory was a picture of a man and lady. Jpeg 1063 was his favorite. Him, and that woman, resting her head in the curve of his neck. I read his correspondence, she hasn’t written him back in years but he asks for it, constantly, jpeg 1063, jpeg 1063, jpeg 1063.”(Kaye 47-51) The laptop sees the relationship between its former owner and how it can be presumed that the relationship hasn’t ended well as the laptop says that she hasn’t talked back to the owner in years. The image under the name jpeg 1063 was the picture between the owner and the woman. Relationship is one of the shared humanity characteristics that can be seen in

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