Shaymus In Derealization

The character Shaymus in Derealization endured endless catastrophes on his family vacation. However, His catastrophes reminded me of when my family and I went to Las Vegas for a family vacation. I personally was the same age as shaymus so I can understand the sense of emotions he was enduring. Continuously our way to the trip, everything started going wrong. To continue, my dad was in a debauched mood the entire trip, on the other side my mom was livid and our entire trip just wasn’t as expected. On The day we left Vegas, we forgot my mother’s luggage in the hotel room. Therefore, we went back to gaze for it and unscrupulous luck occurred it wasn’t there. It further brought additional tension to my parents due to issues of infertility occurring.
His initial encounter with realization occurred with wishing, afterwards his next realization with fairer treatment is when he is forced to go on his family vacation, also he isn’t allowed to stay home alone, which further increases his desperation to wish and be treated more fairly. Although, in the story he hasn’t obtain his driver’s license and is torn because he doesn’t know who he wants to be, he knows that if he gets treated more fairly he could show them more responsibility instead of avoiding his problems which is a roller coaster ride to begin with. To continue, those are the first two motifs in the story, and the next motif is a phone which was one of his desires and in the beginning of the story he ends up receiving a phone which bring a roller coaster of problems and correlate with the motif of having a phone which could open new possibilities in life. Having a phone, opens a life where the hope of fitting into the mold can become a reality but in the story he receives the phone for reasons that aren’t stated. With the phone, the motif that is explored is the problems his phone brings into play. Before the problems begin, during their ride to their vacation he is setting up his phone and trying to find ways to not have to listen to his family. Then, in the rest of the story moments occur that the realization of
In the second page of the story, the character shaymus explains that his dad sees the glass half empty and that it seems that he had a switch flipped that he can’t turn off anymore which relates to being a teenager because as a teenager you are dealing with all of those motifs and not knowing who you are or want to become. Therefore, people in your life are constantly changing and in this story all of his family have faced changes which is another recurring theme in the story. Change is first apparent, with his dad and how being a cop has affected him and his sister wanting to be seen older and be allowed to wear makeup and shaymus not wanting to grow up are all factors of how life is constantly changing. That is a theme that is as apparent as family and self-discovery, because all of the characters are all dealing with life changes and the teenagers are struggling with trying to figure out their world and being stuck in their parent’s world, therefore that is when the realization of a time machine is brought back because with it, change can be prevented and the moments of the vacation that brought changes won’t occur. Although, a time machine doesn’t solve any of his problems because he has to endure those changes and the motifs because they are all part of growing up which in a result make the story flow in a way that is relatable to being a teenager in a