The Life You Save May Be Your Own Summary

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In The Life You Save May Be Your Own the characters apply to the title. This story is very interesting. It has a lot of emotion and foretelling what might happen in the rest of the story. The characters play a big role in why they named the story what they did. They knew how to put into words the meaning of the story by using the characters. Mrs. Crater was one of the main characters that stuck out to me because she was so influential to the rest of the movie. She was the one that made most of the decisions on what happened. Her daughter was the one that was stuck in the middle of it all. She didn’t do anything and yet she was put in the middle part that everyone was ruining. Mr. Shiftlet is obviously the part in the story that is the most …show more content…

Lucynell Crater is the daughter of Mrs. Lucynell Crater. She is a mentally challenged girl who everyone is making decisions for. The title of the story applies to Lucynell because she is the center of everything. She may not understand what is happening, but many people say that that is a good thing because she would be miserable to see how bad they are actually treating her. She is saving her own life because when Mr. Shiftlet leaves her, it is a good thing because he was only going to marry her for the money. There was no emotions left in it and now she can have a better life because of it. This title means a lot in her life because, like driving, life is a roller coaster and everyone needs to save their own lives in the long run. Everyone is selfish one time or another. Lucynell may not know what is going on, but she does understand that Mr. Shiftlet is marrying her and what that means. She doesn’t know that her mom sold her to him, so that she could get rid of taking care of her. This title is also influential in her life because she is benefiting from Mr. Shiftlet leaving which means that she is saving her own life without even knowing …show more content…

Crater is very connected to the title. She is another one of thos influential characters. At the beginning of the story, she is shown as a character that is controlling and a little overprotective of her daughter. Later in the story she sells her daughter away to Mr. Shifter. This is when the title starts to make a meaning towards her. She is giving her whole life away to Mr. Shifter because she thinks that she is saving her life by giving it away. At first she said that her daughter was basically a prodigy at everything, even though she is mentally challenged. She goes from telling everybody that meets her daughter that she is a prodigy, to giving her daughter away to a stranger. She believes that she is saving the rest of her life by doing this. She wants her daughter to be happy and to be married and move on with her life. Her life is saved by marrying her daughter off. By doing this she believes that this is how she is saving it. Mr. Shifter is a shady man, but Mrs. Crater believes that this man is going to be the best for her because she feels that this was the best way to save her life. The title could not have been understood more perfectly by using this character. She shows her true colors when she tries to marry her daughter off to a stranger. She knows that this might not be the best idea for her daughter, but she believes it will make her more apt to save

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