A Deeper Look.

At first reading this story seems to be a little discouraging. The boy telling the story, the main character Michael Christian, and the other children reside in this home where the Old Head Nurse oversees and there only link to the outside world is a black and white cracked Zenith television set with no knobs, a dime stuck in the channel selector and the sound and picture work at different times. There was the Human …

…for the moment in time where Michael Christian's attention and everyone else's attention is on "The Birds." At the movies end, Michael Christian buries his head in his pillow. He no longer has to sustain his false image, the wall is gone and he can be himself, not the loud, angry, James Brown impersonating boy that he was and the afro doesn't matter anymore. It is disposed of like the emotional wall. He is changed.