Review: Nice little story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2012
This is a nice little story of a boy who is witness to and affected by the arrival and actions of a witch. The witch comes to town and gently turns things a bit upside down. The witch's "adjustments" were involving the things in the town (money, goods, etc.). The primary character is the boy, and it describes his perception of and actions towards the witch.I found that the story did not flow that well for me, with very little background information on the characters, and it seemed to lack the element that tied all the "adjustments" together - in other words, I did not truly get a sense of what the author intended the purpose of the "adjustments" to be. When reading the story, it felt like I had been thrown into a town of strangers and was a bystander watching all this come about, which may be what the author was trying to achieve. I came up with my own "moral of the story", and would be interested in knowing if anyone else felt similarly, and would really like to find out if the author's intentions were anything close to what I discerned, below:What I believe got from the story was that we are all a mixture of good and evil, some having more bits of one or the other, and that we decide which path to take and which way to live, yet we can also profoundly affect the paths chosen by others by the way we respond to them. The boy in the story, who treated the witch kindly despite his hesitation, influenced others to treat her a bit more kindly, and was ultimately rewarded beyond belief for his kind treatment of the witch.Despite all, the story is interesting, creative, short, and simple, yet thought provoking, and I felt satisfied with ending.This story is fine for teens.