Dear Lulu July
6, 1927
I am
sitting at a railway station waiting with my boyfriend for the express to Madrid.
He went to take the bags to the other side and I expect it will be some time
before he comes back.
I have to tell you something, and I wish you were here,
because I need your advice! It all started out really nice, I met this handsome
American man and everything was fine, but then things started to go bad. Now we
do not really talk. He ordered some beer and some drinks for us and I told him
that the hills look like white elephants, but this was really to begin a
conversation about what our trip is really about.
I am
pregnant Lulu, but my boyfriend does not want me to have the baby even though
he says it is my decision. He believes, and wants me to believe, that everything
will go back to normal if I just have an abortion although I know that this is
not true. I do not know what to do! I wish you were here to comfort me in this
unfortunate situation!
Please
write!
Your unhappy
friend, Jig
The letter genre works well to recast the story in another genre. However, a few things get lost, such as the impact of the metaphor of the white elephants metaphor. But enough elements are present in your text to ensure the reader could deduce what the original text was, and what it was about.
ReplyDeleteI like that you wrote a letter from Jig's point of view, confirming that she is in fact pregnant and that her boyfriend does not wish to have it. It's also a topic that I imagine someone would write a letter about. I also liked the detail with 'unhappy friend', that seems like something girls would do to be a little more dramatic, haha.
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