Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Doctor Jack-O'-Lantern by Richard Yates

Vinni is the new boy at school, an orphan, who has problems making friends. His teacher Ms. Price tries to help him out by giving him chance after chance to help him out, but Vinni keeps feeding the bully guy vibe to the kids. Even though she tries and tries to give him chances he continues to let her down by lying, writing curse words on the wall and also drawing a picture of her on the wall to show who has the real power.

With Vinni being an orphan he has never really had a mother figure and Ms. Price would be the first real adult figure to care about him and him not knowing or wanting the attention uses it to gain the attention of the students by being a bully figure to the others and shows them how powerful he is by taking the "punishment" that the teacher supposedly gave him, and then drawing her picture on the wall.

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