Shells By Cynthia Rylant Summary

Happyness
In “Shells” by Cynthia Rylant, Michael and his Aunt Esther’s relationship is filled with loads and loads of changes throughout the story and people are born to need to change. A reason to support this claim is that she can’t get along with Michael until she begins to change is when the author writes the sentence (“Aunt Esther liked living alone, she had never married or had children, she had never lived anywhere but Detroit until Michael came.”) when it signal’s that there relationship is full of change. Another piece of evidence to support this claim is a sentence “She said she thought she might send him away if he couldn’t be nicer, she didn’t deserve this treatment,” Another reason to support this claim is this simple sentence