The train ride

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The train journey is a short story by the Luxembourgish writer Guy Helminger . It is about a group of girls and a boy who catch their eye because he claims to be famous while taking a tram ride. The story was first published in Helminger's short story collection Rost in 2001.

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During an initially normal and everyday tram ride, a boy loudly claims that he is famous, although nobody in the car knows him. A group of girls are watching and joking about the boy. The other passengers are disinterested and silent. After the boy repeats his assertion, the mood changes, which now resembles the gray and cold weather outside the car.

The boy, who has now turned his back on two of the girls, tells one that he will be read about him in the newspaper tomorrow. Another girl replies that he “has no chance anyway” and should stop because they have “seen something better”. The atmosphere in the car loosens up, the girl giving the boy's opinion grins, as does he. Then he takes a pistol out of his jacket pocket and shoots the girl in the face.

Use in class

The train journey is often used as school reading. In many cases, the students only learn the beginning of the story in order to complete it in the same style according to their own ideas.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bernd Schurf et al. Andrea Wagener (Ed.): German book, high school general edition, new edition 8th school year, school book . Cornelsen, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-464-68058-2 , pp. 193-194.