Her story starts by telling the reader how, ultimately, small they, as people are, not once but twice. First she compares us with the universe, telling us how insignificant we are and then again by saying “… the Earth is enormous”. By showing us how small we are in comparison it helps to build on how big she views love and fate as being. Fate plays a large part in the events that unfold in her tale and this is what gives the story its intended impact. The story is written in such a way that it relies on a

Both characters remain largely a mystery to the reader throughout the story. Because it is the girl who is retelling a memory of her own we never get to learn much about her, not even her name. This is because she already knows herself and has no reason to explain more of who she is. The story is not about her specifically, but more one of Theo and everything she got to know about him when she knew him. Because it is told through the first person the reader only ever learns what the author cares to reveal to them, or what she herself learns along the way. The author has no knowledge of 'outside' events and because of this neither does the reader. Like her, they are left wondering why he wore an eye patch and come up with just as many reasons for it as she does. They are allowed to learn small things but are mostly kept in the dark. The reader never finds out what Theo got himself involved in that ultimately lead to his disappearance. He is a man without a past and as such as no future to tell us of. Like her the end leaves us wondering what has become of him and how such a connection of souls could be unexplainably broken apart. If she is able to find her soul mate and then lose him as quickly as he came, the reader begins to wonder if they will be greater equipped to hold onto theirs should they have the fortune of crossing paths and bumping into them.

readers beliefs and works on their emotions. If a reader comes to it having no belief in fated events then they will possibly take little emotional attachment away from having read it. On the other hand if a person who believes in fated events and destiny reads her story they may have a greater sense of belief behind the events unfolding and see them as something that could really have happened. By writing this story in the first person and making it about love and chance meetings, it seems more a tale of reality th

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Judith Whites', teenage girl, author tells, story person, left wondering, chance talk, emotional attachment, told person, fated events, story love, person narrative,