ROAR (journals): Journal Entry #2

The protagonist, Paul, has had problem with LaBatt and he is very scared of him. LaBatt has been his all time bully.
He wonders why LaBatt bullys him and he says this is another mystery he need to solve. He loves mysteries!
During this time, 14 is the legal age to start working in shops.
"Women never wore high heels in Frenchtown on weekday afternoons" (39) but his aunt Rosanna was one who did and he admired her beauty. He even follows her!
One day when he was following her, she went to Rudolphe Toubert's house who was "the closest thing to a gangster" (41). Paul was very jealous. "My love for her forgave everything and anything" (47).
Paul told Aunt Rossana that he was in love with her and she told him that couldn't be possible because she was too old and was his aunt. After, they talked about her life and she told him that she left town because she was pregant. To Paul's surprise the baby was Rudolphe's.
Rosanna and Paul are close and eventhough she left she wrote him a letter.

"Omer LaBatt always appeared before me this way, like a phantom, without warning, out of nowhere" (33). Simile.
"I spotted her one day hurrying along Seventh Street in bright red high-heeled sandals with straps that wrapped around her ankles like thin fingers caressing her flesh" (39). Simile.
"Carried on the sumer air, the whistles created a strange kind of harmony, harsh and out of tune yet blending together, like the cries of all the workers down the hallways of the years, protesting the long hours,the blistering heat, the aches and the pains, the frustrations and the loses" (54). Allusion. Simile. Imagery.

Paul says he's in love and that he knows all about love eventhough he's only 13.

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