“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world”-Edmond De. Sadly opinions get the best of us sometimes. Especially in the books The Alligators and Possibility of Evil. In the two stories the protagonists have huge opinions about others in the story, and are often misled.
In Charlie's dream in The Alligators Joan is swimming in a clear river with alligators around her. The author wrote “There was a calmness in the way the slim girl and the green alligators moved, in and out, perfectly visible under the window skin of water.” The alligators in his dream represent the gang at his school who are waiting for a perfect time to launch at Joan. They