Analysis of "Ghosts" by Naomi Wood
“Ghosts” by Naomi Wood
We have a choice in life. A choice that is going to define our lives. You can either live in the moment, or you can live in the past. You can be a ghost in your own life, or you can be the creator of it. What is time? What is age? And can we even count these things? Fyscicans constantly find new discoveries about time, particles and these sorts of fysician things. Making us question what time means, and how to count it. The question is more likely what we do with our time, our years of life, because one day it can all be over, and you spent your last day on this earth, reminiscing about yesterday. What you could’ve have done, what you should’ve done, who you should’ve become. Instead of thinking of what we can become, what we can do and how today is the best day to do it. It is never to late. For what its worth, it never to late, or to early to be whoever you want to be. We can make the best or worst of it. There is no time limit, you can always stop and turn around. This is what Naomi Wood’s short story “Ghost” from 2012, is all about. Its about one thing most of us people do. Remenisicng instead of living. Thinking instead of doing. Blaming too many things, on too many excuses. Time plays a mayor role in this story, therefore there will be focused on what role the time plays and the setting in this short story. Furthermore, there will be looked at the name of the short story, and what it is a symbol of.
In this story, we follow the 39-year old women Pia, who is turning forty soon. We follow her through her car ride home after work, asumingly. Already in the beginning we can see how Wood uses time to describe Pias state of mind: “She was dying, really, to be at home; it had been a day that had felt longer than its eight hours.” (page 1, line 27). This is an interesting line, because we later on see, that the whole idea with the short story is that time flies away from us. Wood is maybe trying to state a point here, saying we complain
We have a choice in life. A choice that is going to define our lives. You can either live in the moment, or you can live in the past. You can be a ghost in your own life, or you can be the creator of it. What is time? What is age? And can we even count these things? Fyscicans constantly find new discoveries about time, particles and these sorts of fysician things. Making us question what time means, and how to count it. The question is more likely what we do with our time, our years of life, because one day it can all be over, and you spent your last day on this earth, reminiscing about yesterday. What you could’ve have done, what you should’ve done, who you should’ve become. Instead of thinking of what we can become, what we can do and how today is the best day to do it. It is never to late. For what its worth, it never to late, or to early to be whoever you want to be. We can make the best or worst of it. There is no time limit, you can always stop and turn around. This is what Naomi Wood’s short story “Ghost” from 2012, is all about. Its about one thing most of us people do. Remenisicng instead of living. Thinking instead of doing. Blaming too many things, on too many excuses. Time plays a mayor role in this story, therefore there will be focused on what role the time plays and the setting in this short story. Furthermore, there will be looked at the name of the short story, and what it is a symbol of.
In this story, we follow the 39-year old women Pia, who is turning forty soon. We follow her through her car ride home after work, asumingly. Already in the beginning we can see how Wood uses time to describe Pias state of mind: “She was dying, really, to be at home; it had been a day that had felt longer than its eight hours.” (page 1, line 27). This is an interesting line, because we later on see, that the whole idea with the short story is that time flies away from us. Wood is maybe trying to state a point here, saying we complain