Leading Role.

August is a metaphor for a siren that drags others down into sea with

her. Her character is meant to represent and project the real fear young

people especially have about oversharing and becoming a burden,

for others linked to the term ”Trauma Dumping”. It is her own fear and

troubles of communicating that leads her to almost drowning her friend

in an attempt to confide in her. Throughout the story, August’s point

of view is divided between the past and the current; In the past we

see her struggling to express her feelings to Fryd, and in the present

we can see her regret of her choices and statements. There is a clear

difference between her present and former personality, where her current

personality wishes to stop her earlier actions, and consequently creates

a strong inner conflict that creates a mystery of what is gonna happen

that is so wrong, and the question of August’s drowning of Fryd was

accidental or not.