Lisa Lo Short Story: Two Colors

The reader is taken on a journey with the protagonist where Red faces copious challenges and disappointment from his friends. All his peers wanted to help him be who he is “supposed” to be – red. They all had their own opinion. Maybe he was broken, maybe his label was too tight, maybe he was not sharp enough. They tried to help by giving him advice, setting up play dates with other crayons, nevertheless, nothing seemed to work.

Eddie’s bad luck has left him accepting his bad luck, although he was a little frustrated with it at first. For example, “His luckless state kept away the pretty girls. Before they could sit beside him, someone else always grabbed the seat” (Harold 1). After Eddie met Mara, he gets a voicemail from here, stating that he has left his credit card with her tissues. After that, Eddie no

The novel states,” Montag moved back… checker mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight…” (Bradberry 15). This also shows just how much montag still cares for mildred even though she gives little effort back toward him. This relates back to the theme of the novel, the decay of human relationships. Montag and mildred’s relationship is decaying because of technology and poor decisions.

Sometimes I act a lot older than I am-I really do-but people never notice it. People never notice anything” (9). Salinger adds how people ‘never notice anything’ to Holden’s feelings because Holden is a boy, whom his parents don’t take care of, which sparks Holden’s feelings of no one even caring and noticing him. As identified in the beginning of the Novel Stradlater opens Holden’s feelings with dialogue which reveals “my parents were occupied and all that crap…” (1).

They addressed another person as “we”, and for a group of people as “us”. They have no for of individuality, and have known none since birth by the seems of it. He then discovered something that inspired him to learn more, and by learning more, he gained more knowledge than the rest of his so called “Brothers”. Then he meets the “Golden One” and they then start to communicate. They Communicate very solemnly and finally one day, Prometheus presents his discovery to the council of scholars, and he gets the opposite reaction of what he expected, he fled, the Golden one followed him and showed her affection, they both fled to the woods and found a remote location and found what looked to be a house and objects from the “forbidden times”.

“I come here alone, and sit To learn your special play: Show me your expertise While my husband is away.” (Winny 87). A person never knows what exactly she meant, but when they are talking about love and alone, the statement can be mistaken into so many immoral ways. However, he answers that he does not want anyone right then.

The idea of war was only ideal to the young boys, and that changed throughout the course of the book. The war is frowned upon by some people, Irene Hunt, as an example. First, the letters that the boys in the war wrote were never positive. They always mentioned the awful things about the war, “Things was awful bad with so many kilt and others froze.”

He believes that everyone is pure and innocent as a child, but they lose their perfection when they grow up. This causes more problems for him, as he believes he cannot grow up either. If Holden were to move to Kwajalein he could put aside all of his struggles and live a full life as a Kwaj

No matter how hard Gatsby tried to be worthy of Daisy, there were always lies and “foul dust float[ing] in the wake of his dreams” that kept them apart. Ultimately, this same dust killed him in the form of George Wilson who was living in the ash. At the conclusion of the book, Nick reflects on Gatsby’s continued hopeful attitude up to the very end of his life. However, as Nick writes, the different punctuation suggests he is slowly realizing what his experiences with Gatsby really mean.

“Why didn’t you pay it before?” “ I was pretty sick about that. I waited too long to help another man”(6). This ending was not expected in the beginning, however there was a little of foreshadowing towards it. One example of it is when the teacher made a rude comment and no one stood up for him just a few tears from his crush.

Virtually every single person in the house only treated Matt properly when El Patrón is present and tries to avoid Matt as much as possible. Matt is now eleven years old and the only people that accept him are Celia, María, El Patrón, and Tam Lin. Celia is his caregiver. Since Matt is a clone, he has no parents. Celia doesn’t allow him

“Detective Castellanos? Detective Castellanos? You have a visitor.” From somewhere far away, Sebastian heard a soft voice calling to him, rousing him from a deep slumber. He struggled to open his eyes and make sense of the feminine shape hovering protectively over him.

“Can I take this out, it isn’t necessary. I’m Fine and I just want to get home.” Doctor Kale let out a sigh, pulling her hands away from the IV. “Were going to leave it in, for now, okay?

I was not thinking about my parents, teammates, or even myself. I wanted to stick out and be able to say, “I quit because I did not like my coach.” This was my “Sammy” moment. I regretted my decision very soon after. Seeing all of the pictures of my friends in their uniforms made me jealous and upset about my decision.

When I walk into her room I see her lying there defenseless. The light above her bed casts the perfect fluorescence on her skin and she beams with elegance. I look at the nurse and the ends of her mouth twist up and the sides of her eyes crinkle and you can tell smiling is a way of life for her. She glides over to where I am standing and hugs me softly, telling me she will leave us alone so I can have my time with her. She walks off and closes the door tenderly, as if not to wake Brooklynn.