Eveline

Personal: While reading this story, I went along with the girls idea of getting away from her mundane life. She describes her unhappy childhood and home life, althoughshe says they aren't so bad. She talks of the foreign country that this fellow who is well-acquainted with the world will take her to. As her excitement and pensiveness builds, so does the reader's. And yet, when the time comes to take a leap to somewhere she's never been before, she doesn't. After all of that time spent planning she can't do it. This was very disappointing, and my first reaction was to question why the author bothered to write such a boring outcome. But, this story was more like real life because of its ending and offers a life lesson. When we don't take that leap, we miss out on extraordinary things. It is easier to realize in a character than in our own lives.