The Stolen Day

Cassidy Doome’
La Mrs. Johann
Stolen Day
“It must be that all children are actors.” A interesting concept that is also true. As told in the short story “Stolen Day” that if you really think that something is true, even if it’s not, you will start to believe it. This lesson or trait is something that can be good, and bad.
In many ways the trait that this boy has is good. For an example if you really do believe that you can do something, like winning a game, you will have more confidence of courage to do it. If from the beginning you think that you can’t do it you won’t try your hardest because you will think what is the point of trying if I’m only going to fail. Even though it can be a good thing it can also come with a down side to it.
In the story “Stolen Day” this young boy uses this trait in a bad way. He just wanted to go fishing like his friend Walter so he thought if he had inflammatory rheumatism he could. It came to a point where he really thought that he had this disease which isn’t good to think if it’s not true. Just because he really wanted to go fishing he made up stories that he eventually believed.
In all its something that most kids do. They come up with a story so they can stay home from school. In the story they talk about how he is a hero because he caught this big fish and even though he was “sick”. When everyone found out why he came home from school they all started to laugh at him. He started to cry and knew that that would be the last time he had inflammatory rheumatism.
Thinking something is true when it’s not is what “Stolen Day” is all about. Just because you want to do something doesn’t me you can. If it’s a good thing or a bad thing is how you use it.