It has been impossible to compare anyone to you. I have found myself wishing Mildred was more like you. Your genuine words and emotions evoke such feelings within me. You understand the power of knowledge, where Mildren places looks before thought. Hhh Moreover, you value family. I adore the way “laughter blows across your moon-coloured lawn” (14), and the way your …show more content…
He was quite afraid of me when we originally met, seeing as I was wearing my fireman uniform. Ironically enough, he thought I was speaking with him to take his books from him. He was originally an English professor, though as the number of his students dwindled, as did his carreer (70). It was perfect timing meeting him as just days before I had been reading about friendship: “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over” (67). Him and I have teamed up together to get our hands on as many books as possible. Despite our efforts to be secretive, this has caused major turmoil within my family, as well as placing me under the scrutiny of Beatty’s watchful eye for quite some