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Crabs In The Short Story 'Shells' By Cynthia Rylant

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Literary essay In the short story ‘’Shells’’,written by Cynthia Rylant,a boy named Michael had lost his parents and his aunt esther stepped in to take care of him.It has been 6 months and since then they have been arguing all the time.But further on in the story it shows how just a few hermit crabs can bring them closer together and this is because relationships inprove when people find things in common. Michael was in Esther house they started arguing it kind of started like this ’’Can’t You Just leave me alone!’’ ‘’You just refuse to be happy here and you punish me for it!’’ ‘’Punish You!’’..............This is when they just hated each other and Esther was even thinking of sending him away.They didn’t have anything in common so they fought like that all the time. But all of that changed when they got Sluggo the hermit crab.They were at a store to by a crab and Michael was suprised that his aunt was just as interested in crabs as he was that he looked at her more than he looked at the crabs.Then they started thinking of what crab to choose.This evidence proves that the crabs have brought them closer together.They both go to a store and both share their ideas about what crab to get.No yelling or disagreeing.Just them hanging out at a store.

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