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The Vessor's Short Story

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1. After Conor visited his mother in the hospital, his grandmother drove him to her house,

dropped him off, and went back to the hospital. At 12:07, the monster appeared, and Conor asked

the yew tree monster if it could heal his mother (for a yew tree has healing elements). The

monster told Conor that if his mother could be healed then the yew tree would do it, and the

monster also reminded him that, after the third story, he would soon have to tell the monster the

final story (the truth about his nightmare). Conor cried out that that was not his truth and it was

just a dream. The next day, his grandmother, still sour from the destruction of the sitting room,

drove Conor to school. At lunch time, he sat alone at the far edge …show more content…

As the monster tells the story, the monster and Conor are in sync

(whatever the monster does Conor does the same thing). The monster tells him that one day the

invisible man gets tired of not being seen , so the invisible man makes them see. Conor realizes

that he is the invisible man in the story, so Conor and the monster come up to Harry, who is

pretending that Conor is invisible, and shoves him. Conor unleashes the rage from inside him

onto Harry, who gets hospitalized. I think the moral of the story is that people need to be seen

and acknowledged to feel normal. When Conor beat up Harry, he finally released all of his anger

that he keeps inside.

3. Conor likes to get bullied because it makes him feel normal (nothing else is in his life).

He likes it because he actually talks to someone, when no one else will, and it releases the anger

and tension inside him. When Harry said that he could no longer see Conor, he the had no way to

release that anger, so Conor lashed out.

4. In part one, Conor is in the denial stage when he is telling his grandmother how …show more content…

The story leaves a lot of

questions for the reader to fill in.

6. One year later, he awoke early in his newly painted room, he and his grandmother had

done some revisions to her old house in the past year, and he went downstairs to the kitchen,

glancing at the new sitting room that they made into a television and game room. He smiled as

he passed. He started making breakfast for his grandmother because after school his grandmother

and him would go to the semitary to visit his mother, who had passed exactly one year ago. They

ate breakfast while talking and laughing about things that normal family's talked about. "So who

is this Lily girl that you have been talking to?," his grandmother said teasingly. "Oh, she is just a

friend at school," Conor said, like it is no big deal. At school, Conor has all A's and B's (except

Spanish which he never had a much interest for anyway). Conor and super poodle (Lily) are best

friends again. As for Harry, he had come back to school, but he does not say much to Conor

although he did apologize to Conor for what he did. Conor did the same. He felt like a

completely different person compared to the year before. That evening his grandmother and

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