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Summary  The story starts with telling about all the earlier women in Rob’s life: from his first girlfriend; Alison Ashworth to Sarah Kendrew. After the whole romantic story, from primary school and until today, is told; the real plot starts. Rob is exhausted after another break up, this one with Laura. You get an insight in his daily, not super exiting, life from the augments and talk about music in Rob’s record label: “//Hey Dick, what’s this music, man? It stinks. Phwooar,”// and his longing for Laura to the calls from a dejected mother. The plot in the book is Rob trying to figure out why he is domed to be left alone. This is why he contacts all the women at his most memorable split-ups list, except Sarah Kendrew because Laura gets this place in the end. After he has visited each and every one of them, he figures out that the break-ups came natural and that it didn’t have much to do about him. Alison, for example, married the guy she was making out with. Rob says that their breakup was beyond his control; that is was faith. With others he figures out that there is no hard feeling anymore. In the end he finds out that all these breakups were necessary, and he can again start his life looking forward. Laura keeps hanging around in Rob’s life, even after she left him for another Ian-guy. Rob finds out that it is his guts there is something wrong with. He finds Laura and start talking about their relationship, and what went wrong. They figure out that they are a good match, and that they should keep being a couple. In the end he sais to Laura: “//The other girls seems always so great, because there are never any problems (…), and when I came home, we have real problems. But I am tired of the other girls, because they are basically only a fantasy. The thing I never seem to get tired of is you”. //It ends with Rob asking Laura if she wants to marry him. The novel: High Fidelity, belong to the comedy and drama genre. You find the book hilarious because of all the thoughts that Rob has, and the fact that you can see yourself in his situation. It is also dramatic in the way that he is struggling with his love life and to make himself understood of the people around him. Hornby has a sarcastic point of view when he writes the book to indicate his point of view. He thinks that people often can feel like outsiders in the world’s society and that you often become alone if you are not willing to copy the others. The book starts with the sentence:”//My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: Alison Ashworth, Penny Hardwick, Jackie Allen, Charlie Nicholson, Sarah Kendrew.”// From that moment you are introduced to Rob Fleming’s, the main person, thoughts that you will follow throughout the whole book. You will not get to know the other important characters in the book’s thought. This makes it very interesting to read and more genuine, because you in real life have your own meanings and don’t think about what all the others are thinking all the time. That Hornby decided to use 1st person and let his thoughts be the voice to the readers gives us the feeling of living his life while you’re reading. You will eventually think about how interesting it would be if the book was inside Laura or Dick’s head: it would truly be another story. I will only look briefly at this topic, because you can read more about this in other paragraphs. Hornby grew up with his mother, after she and his father had separated from each other. His father was a rich man who could afford to send Hornby to an affluent school. He never felt like he fitted in here, and this is something that he present in his characters. In High Fidelity, as all the other books he has written, you can find the people that feel like they don’t fit in the society. They often feel like losers, like Rob himself and wants something greater out of his life. The thing that makes High Fidelity such a special book, is that the plot could be anywhere in the world at any time. The only thing you know about the place where Rob lives, is that it is a smaller town. This makes it a universal book that everyone can identify them with. Hornby emphasise this by not having a detailed description of the setting. The focus is on the characters and the main persons’ thoughts. When you read the book does not go forward by direct action, but by thoughts and feelings. What set High Fidelity out from all the other books and made it a huge success is probably the fact that it is a universal book. The story doesn’t take place in a special town or time, it could be anywhere in the world at any time. The focus is on a person’s thoughts, thoughts that are equal for all human beings. Everyone will feel like a looser sometime, and everyone will feel like they don’t fit in somewhere as Hornby and Rob Flemming. That we can identify with the persons is what makes it so funny and special at the same time. It is not as most books about persons with super interesting lives. This book shows us that life don’t have to be exceptional all the time. It tells us that a good life often is enough. Therefore I think that many people get a comfort with reading this book: their life is not as horrible and boring as they thought. It is only safe, good and normal, as life is supposed to be.
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