On the Lake - Margret and Oskar

Olaf Olafsson

On the Lake

The story is about a Margret and Oskar who is parents to the little boy Jonas who is about 6 years old. They are in the living room and drinking coffee, their son Jonas is fallen asleep in Margret arms, after a while she takes him to the bedroom and makes sure that he is breathing. In the same evening after diner Oskar decides, to go fishing. But only because he promised his son Jonas that they should go fishing. Margret wasn't agreed because she thought it's been too late. On the fishing tour they didn't caught any fishes, so Jonas was not happy with that. His father wants to take home with him, and telling Jonas that it's late and the fish have gone to bed. On that fishing tour something went wrong, Oskar wants to give Jonas some few turns before they are going home, so Oskar opened the throttle as far as he could, and then the boat hit the tiller hard. They went under water Oskar couldn't find his son Jonas, luckily there was another boat in the near who came to rescue them. The man in the other boat was a man called Vilhelm. Vilhelm helped Oskar and Jonas to the land. After that they went to Oscar and Margret's house, to celebrate the saving of the two in the boat. But something also went wrong there...

Margret is a worried woman who really cares about her son. She is the center of the relationship between her and Oscar. As said, Margret is married to Oscar, who is a silent person, but also very careful about their son Jacob, but he still thinks that Margret is overreacting a bit. When she can not ear him breath she is panicking and so on. In the story it says that Oscar would take their son out for a fishing trip on the lake, but Margret is against, she sais that it is too late for a fishing trip, but he does it anyway. They did not catch anything, and on the way home, Jonas persuaded his father to get some more speed on the boat, which he does. The result of that is, that the boat capsizes and they have to be saved out of the water by a person called Vilhelm. Oscar is also a very jealous person, who in the end sees the worst in Margret, and he really believes that she is cheating on him with Vilhelm. Because of that he runs home to the house after he has been up to get some more whiskey.

Vilhelm is the one who saves Oscar and Jacob from the death. After the boat capsizes. He owns a big white motorboat, which he sails in all day. His motorboat is a very noisy one, and that is one of the things Margret hates on the trip, but Jacob thinks it is the coolest thing he had ever seen, and he really wants to try out the boat. Which Margret has said no to. Vilhelm saw the "accident" on the lake, and he knows what realty happened, but he did not tell Margret the story. Maybe because he does not want to ruin their relationship, or maybe just because he thinks it is a ridiculous