Analysis Of Skydiving With Friends By Mitzi Pulido

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Often at times, there can be confusing items you see that shows on how no to minds are alike to each other in ways. As in the short story, SkyDiving With Friends, written by Mitzi Pulido, is about the author with their group of friends going on an adventure in the sky. I personally feel, that Pulido wrote this story to show that friendship a powerful bond can be even making a person dream of them, because of the fondness in the relationship. Personally, I do not dream of friends, which I can’t really connect to the author, yet I interpret it in a different way than Pulido did. In the story there are three main points, that are shown which are, on how that friends can be more close than family, followed by having adventures with friends can turn out to be good …show more content…
Which can be surprising to them, as they are inexperienced to this and are discussing over it with different emotions. To this the reader can be able to understand that not all trips go well, not even if the trips are well planned like Mitzi and her friends with their equipment. As the story progresses one of the friends named Homer pushes another friend, Lisbeth, out of the plane. This is showing the reader that everyone reacts differently to different situations they are in, especially with friends who you rely one with another. As this could have been taken in two ways, that Homer could have warned Lisbeth together ready to jump off, yet he did the ‘bad’ thing and pushed her off very suddenly. This is an important thing for the reader, as they can then know that not all the results from having an adventure would be the planned feeling, as there can be situations that appear and throw you off. Followed by Lisbeth falling off the plane, Mitzi and her friends jump on with parachutes, except for one friend who decided to stay behind to perish with the

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