Story Analisys by Etgar Keret Sample Essay

Let’s imagine that someone caught a goldfish. There’s no need in asking that person to tell us what three wishes he or she will make. Why? Because we know in advance that they will answer something like may all be healthy and happy and may peace rue in the world. Let’s consider another situation when that person isn’t in a hurry. Well start all over again. There is no one around. Not a soul. Only one human and the fish. And no one will ever know what he pr she has in mind. Quite other thoughts start to move, don’t they? Let’s consider another person who is over thirty for a long time. In the mirror he or she sees a face with wrinkles, the hair has turned gray or even noticeably thinned out. That human has achieved a lot in life and he or she is tired. Let’s imagine that he or she suddenly appeared again in the parental home and mom hurries him or her to wash hands and sit at the table. And on the table there is already the favorite dish as only the mother knows how to cook it. Its just a dream, and you need to wake up. But maybe you should not rush? How often do you lie? Never!, you will exclaim and you will be right. Of course, this is the most popular answer! And when the truth will hurt someone takes the second place. Well, you can not argue with that either. Most often, we do not even report to ourselves that we are not telling the truth. And, of course, we immediately forget that we lied. And what will you do if you suddenly find yourself in a parallel world created by your long-forgotten lie, the reality in which the invented by you people live and make good? This is how the modern Israeli writer Etgar Keret is unceremoniously tinkering in the readers soul. Kerets story about the golden fish and his question â€Å"What of this goldfish would you wish?† is both absurd and realistic. Fantasy interferes with life and makes one realize the reality. Keret makes you experience, and emotions change one another with incredible speed. Then you are sad, sometimes happy, sometimes ashamed, then almost physically hurt, and often its some kind of infernal mixture of love, anguish and something else. Etgar Keret is a recognized master of a short absurdist story. His works can not be taken literally as you need to read it abstracting yourself from reality and believing that the fish can speak, the moon can be just bought and bought for 10 bucks, and that even though the dinosaurs have already died, their eggs have remained in different places and If we find them and we have personal dinosaurs, we can go to school and give them names. Keret’s story about the golden fish won’t be too pleasant for everyone, but it doesn’t leave anyone indifferent.