Friday, November 1, 2019

Younger Women by Karen Joy Fowler



Younger Women by Karen Joy FowlerYounger Women is a weird story which is tell about a mother who doesn't allow her daughter;Chloe; to have a relationship with a man; Eli; who is a vampire. After reading that short story, honestly I like Chloe's character in the story. Because she showed that she had right determine his own life without encouraged by her mother, though in real life its not polite against people who are older than us, especially parents.“...I’m not breaking up with you no matter what she says.” 
"A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story". (https://literaryterms.net/character/)Younger Women is an easy story to understand about the story happen, because this story is most of story in real life. The story begin from exposition, when the author introduce about Jude who is a mother that has a daughter;Chloe, she knows that Chloe has boyfriend even though Chloe never tell her mother."Jude knows that her daughter Chloe has a boyfriend. She knows this even though Chloe is fifteen and not talking. If Jude were to ask, Chloe would tell Jude that it's none her business and to stop being such a snoop."As her expected Chloe wan't to tell her mother about her boyfriend. That's why Jude ordered Chloe to bring her boyfriend to meet her. But Chloe's answer is no. I can say that is the rude answer from a daughter to her mother."I'd rather die", Chloe says.In short, Eli who is Chloe's boyfriend decision to come. It's a beginning of the conflict. Jude treats  Eli like she was investigating an inmate. That makes Chloe getting angry and hating her mother. Eli still calm down face her mother. “I don’t mind. She’s just being your mom.” Honestly, Jude don't want her daughter to have the same fate as her. From her past, Chloe's dad leave her to start a new life with a younger women. That's make her don't want Chloe has the same fate."There is this inconvenient fact -eight months ago Chloe's dad walked out to start a new life with a younger woman. Two weeks ago, he called to tell Jude he was going to be a father again."The falling action comes when Chloe going into her room, then Jude asks Eli to come and calm her down. After Eli managed to calm her down, he returned to Jude. "Jude gives Eli fifteen minutes in which to go calm Chloe down. God knows, nothing Jude could say would accomplish that. She waits until he’s up the stairs, then follows him, but only as high as the first creaking step, so that she can almost, but not quite hear what they’re saying. Chloe’s voice is high and impassioned, Eli’s apologetic. Then everything is silent, suspiciously so, and she’s just about to go up the rest of the way even though the fifteen minutes isn’t over when she hears Eli again and realizes he’s in the hall. “Let me talk to your mom,” Eli is saying and Jude hurries back to the table before he catches her listening."On the resolution, Jude asks Eli to making promise that he never leave Chloe alone and never change Chloe. Of course that a simple ordered from a mother. Because she knows that Chloe is fifteen who is young to function her brain well. And of course, Chloe doesn't want to break up with her boyfriend;Eli; no matter what.ConclusionThe story tells about in real life, sometimes love can make us blind to circumstances so that we ignore some of suggestions including from our parents. We keep insisting on our choices, though we don't know weather it's good or not.

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