The Boy Who Could Turn Into Things Analysis
Poof! Brian vanishes. In the short story “The Boy Who Could Turn Into Things” by Stuart Baum, Brian a lonely boy who is always magically turning into things because he wants to be someone else because he is never noticed, hates himself for what he is and then learns to love himself in the end. I think this story's theme is about how Brian the lonely boy gets through his struggle and school and overcomes his loneliness.
At the start of the story “The boy who could turn into things” Brian is sitting in class and he sees a couple of kids outside throwing a frisbee around and he wishes he was the frisbee. He disappears from class and no one notices that he is gone. This show that he is never noticed by his peers and his teachers. This …show more content…
When Brian is walking home from school he changes into a bird because it is pretty and he wants someone to notice him. This shows that Brian is longing for someone to notice him and his abilities and that he wants to be something else,”I mean he could simply decide he wanted to be an object and poof” Another example of when Brian hates himself so he changes into something is when Brian is in math class and every time they got five questions right that student would get a marble. Brian wonders what is would be like to be marble and poof he was a marble. While some people think this part is nothing I think this part of the story means a lot because again this show that Brian is trying to be something that he's not because he hates himself for what he is.
At the end of the story we start to see that Brian wants to be Brian and not someone or something else he wants to be Brian the boy.He overcomes being unnoticed, lonely, and in the end find his true self. In “The boy Who Could Turn Into Things” we start to see Brian take a new approach to life as he makes a friend. This story teaches us it's okay to be our self and adventually you will not be lonely and hate yourself you just have to get through the tough things that Brian went through and remember that other people around the world are struggling with these things too. We start to see
At the start of the story “The boy who could turn into things” Brian is sitting in class and he sees a couple of kids outside throwing a frisbee around and he wishes he was the frisbee. He disappears from class and no one notices that he is gone. This show that he is never noticed by his peers and his teachers. This …show more content…
When Brian is walking home from school he changes into a bird because it is pretty and he wants someone to notice him. This shows that Brian is longing for someone to notice him and his abilities and that he wants to be something else,”I mean he could simply decide he wanted to be an object and poof” Another example of when Brian hates himself so he changes into something is when Brian is in math class and every time they got five questions right that student would get a marble. Brian wonders what is would be like to be marble and poof he was a marble. While some people think this part is nothing I think this part of the story means a lot because again this show that Brian is trying to be something that he's not because he hates himself for what he is.
At the end of the story we start to see that Brian wants to be Brian and not someone or something else he wants to be Brian the boy.He overcomes being unnoticed, lonely, and in the end find his true self. In “The boy Who Could Turn Into Things” we start to see Brian take a new approach to life as he makes a friend. This story teaches us it's okay to be our self and adventually you will not be lonely and hate yourself you just have to get through the tough things that Brian went through and remember that other people around the world are struggling with these things too. We start to see