Are Enn and Vic static or dynamic characters? How have they changed bythe story’s end?
What will be an ideal response?
Vic, who previously seemed to possess an air of smooth and unflappable confidence, has been shaken to his core by his experience with Stella (whose name, of course, means star—the astronomical kind). At first all he can do is get out the words “She wasn’t a—,” leaving it to our imaginations to finish the sentence: a girl? a human? He implies that he’d reached a point with her at which to go any further would have meant becoming something very different, something he emphatically does not wish to become. Enn, who is still unable to make sense of the night’s events, seems to assume that Vic is alluding to the prospect of losing his virginity. Since his encounter with Triolet, he has begun to speak in more mystical, metaphorical terms, as if struggling to express something he can’t fully grasp, let alone put into words. Part of this, perhaps, is the coloration of the adult sensibility looking back on this adolescent experience, but only a part. We are also left to speculate that Vic may have been so disgusted and ashamed that he couldn’t face Enn again after that night. The two boys have reacted to their experiences in very different ways, echoing Triolet’s observation that “[t]here are places that we are welcomed…and places where we are regarded as a noxious weed, or as a disease, something immediately to be quarantined and eliminated” (par. 111).
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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