The Analyst, summary
"Happy 53rd birthday , doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death". This is the first parragraph of the unsigned letter received by Frederick Starks, a long experienced analyst with a peaceful life. Starks will have to use all his intelligence and fastness to find, in fifteen days, who wrote that menace letter, which promises make his life impossible. If he can't, the doctor must choose between comit suicide or see how each member of his family and his friends, are killed by a murderer, a psyco decided to do anything to complete his revenge.
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The Analyst, Summary
"Happy 53rd birthday, doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death". This is the first paragraph of the unsigned letter received by Frederick Starks, an long experienced* analyst with a peaceful life. Starks will have to use all his intelligence and fastness quickness {or speed, alertness, quick wit?}** to find, in fifteen days, who wrote that menacing letter, which promises to make his life impossible. If he can't, the doctor must choose between committing suicide or see watching*** how each member of his family and his friends, are killed (by a murderer):**** a psycho(path) decided determined***** to do anything to complete {better: exact, carry out} his revenge.*We don't say "long experienced" because experienced already implies doing something for a long time.
**"Fastness" actually means something that doesn't come off easily, so it's not the appropriate word here.
***Because the doctor would be implicated/involved in his loved ones' deaths, "seeing" is not appropriate here because it implies something passive.
****Or: "...witnessing his friends and family killed". The phrase "killed by a murderer" is also a little redundant because it's implied that a murderer kills people.
*****Someone who has made a decision and can't be stopped from carrying out that decision is described as "determined".
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