Until They Bring The Streetcars Back By Stanley Gordon West
Calvin Gant, an eighteen year old senior at Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota is a popular kid who plays football for his school but, is that all there is to him? Until They Bring the Streetcars Back is a novel written by Stanley Gordon West from the perspective of a boy named Calvin (Cal) Gant. In the novel Cal helps a girl named Gretchen Luttermann to escape her abusive father. In West’s novel Cal leads both a public and a private life during the story. Cal also behaves differently in each life. Here are a few examples of both lives that describe it.
In Cal’s public life he acts differently than his private life, here are a few examples. In chapter one West wrote, “It was my senior year at St. Paul Central, we’d be the class of 1950…”