Class blog 8/28

Eli Pardue
8/28/08
Brit Lit
Ms. Pfanschmidt

He is tall and thin, with trusting blue eyes and flat, shoulder length blonde hair. He dresses unprofessionally. Ripped blue jeans and a black flannel shirt. He is leaving her because he is restless, which has strained their relationship from the beginning. He cannot stay in one place with one life with many commitments, it stifles his roaming spirit. He has threatened to leave before, and now that he is, she is hysterical. She is glad he is leaving, it is a burden off of her chest, yet at the same time, she knows not what to do without him. Although he is bound to ramble, something about having a home (to him, a home is stability) comforts him. This is why he wants the child. It gives him a connection to the life he loves, yet cannot live in. In their passion, the child becomes the manifestation of their love. Neither can do without the love, and so they scramble for the child. For a moment, the fragile nature of a newborn is forgotten, replaced with a desparation to hold on to something neither wants to leave behind. For a moment, the child embodies their love, and in the final second the love becomes too strained, and snaps. They each now hold half of what used to be, their love, and their child. Both are gone forever.