Throughout this week we have been reading parts of a short story called "Louisa, Please Come Home". This is difficult story to comprehend because there seems to be multiple conflicts appearing at once, yet I believe the clearest, and hardest, conflict is that Louisa (the main character, a runaway) is trying to go from a luxurious, rich life to a simple, working life. Louisa wants to change her identity, she explains that she has have changed in "every sense" (pg. 8 , P.3) that no one would be able to find her. What I am really saying is that Louisa is trying to attempt to create a new identity so she would be safe from the hardships of her old life, perhaps like her sister, Carol, who is suggested as a bully and doesn't seem to care much about Louisa. Although, by changing her identity Louisa would have left much behind and caused much pain, such as breaking her mother's heart and causing Paul, a friend of the family, to be interrogated as a prime suspect in Louisa's disappearance. But Louisa doesn't seem to understand that her "identity" as Louisa is what caused the "world to spin" and that she kept chaos from happening. Mainly because her family wasn't going frantic and depressed trying to find her, in fact they have been in chaos for three years.
For those who haven't read the story, and would like to, click here.
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