Death by scrabble door Charlie Fish

Title:

Death by scrabble
Het is een goed gekozen titel omdat de persoon die het spel scrabble speelt dood gaat door het scrabble bord
Dood door scrabble is de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek

Author:

Charlie Fish is de schrijver van de short story
Informatie:
Charlie Fish lives in London, after having moved there from Birmingham, where he completed a law degree at the University of Birmingham in 2002. He was born in New York on the 12th of March in 1980.

Some other short stories he wrote:
- I am your brother
- Cory
- Ladder to the moon
- Real men
- Gonzalo hermenegildo
- Quality bond
- Dare
- How to get anything you want
- Runnin’ with the devil

Time:

The story is played in every year you can imagine, in a regular messy house.
The story spent 15 minutes of free time.

Place:

Important places in the story are the scrabble board, and the house they are living in.
The story is played in England or other states where they speak English.
The most important place in the story is the scrabble board, because this is the place where all the scrabble pieces lays down.

Structure:

It’s a thriller because what is laying on the scrabble board that will become in reality. So if you play “dead” the one upon you is going to die.

Narrator:

The story is seen through the eyes of the main character. The main character is the man who is going to die.

Characters:

The main character is a man who hates his wife, a bold man with scars. And he is having a red head and you can see his heartbeat in his head.
The other character is his wife she is normal and she sits relaxed on her chair.
She is a little bit old with some wrinkles on her head. The (main) characters are not having a change in their lives

Theme:

I think that life and Death the important theme is in the story because the scrabble board let the characters do what the characters play and that the main character is going to die at the end.
You can’t learn something of the story, it’s just written to enjoy the reader(s).

Summary:

A man hate his wife and he want to “play” her dead, just to play the scrabble words ‘dead’ or ‘kill’. But he hasn’t got the right letters to play one of these words. So he wants to tease her by playing some other words. Like ‘quake’, ‘zaps’ and ‘cheating’. But that doesn’t matter to her. So when she have the correct words she kills him.

Personal opinion:

I liked the part where you discovered that everything what you lay down on the scrabble board in real life happens. I didn’t like the beginning because it started very boring. My grade to this story would be an 8 because I like the story very much.