Novel "The Date"

Student: Bondarev Denis

Educational Programme: Creative Writing (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

Novel “The Date” tells a story of a girl who wants to be happy and looking for a way to her well-being. On this way she passes through many forks, where she has to make difficult moral choices. Making it, she changes her life, and she needs to learn how to live in a new way — to overcome difficult memories, to fight against the condemnation of others, to perceive herself with a number of difficult inputs, to look for her place in a world to which she doesn’t really fit. Gradually, the heroine more and more realizes that life is, in fact, a large supermarket, in which she can go to different shelves, to which — depends on how much money she has. At the same time she realizes that she "lies" on one of the shelves as well. On which — determines which buyers can afford to take her home with them. The heroine understands that the world around her is arranged according to consumerist laws, and this fact satisfies her.

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