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Why Is Gabriel So Lonely
Have you ever been lonely or ignored? You never have anyone to talk to or ask for some advice. Imagining going through that every day. In the short story “Spaghetti” by Cynthia Rylant,Gabriel is lonely because he lost hope, always wishes for some company and since he has no one to talk to he always fully thinks.He has no one to talk to, no one to rely on until he finds a stray kitten in the alleyway near his apartment. He rescues the kitten and brings it home to start a new life.

The first reason why Gabriel is always so lonely because in the story it said that “it was evening, and people sat outside,talking quietly among themselves”. “On the stoop of a tall building of crumbling bricks and rotting wood sat a boy”. That boy was named Gabriel

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