Analyzing Louis Short Stories

Some times you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. This quote by Dr. Seuss is the perfect representation of both short stories because both main characters don't value moments until they remember them towards the end of the story. It first appears these two stories are very different, their common theme of rebellion ties them together.

In Louis's story he worked in his dad's junk yard where they sell people spare parts. The story starts out by giving us a quick look on Louis's history. He was a juvenile, he was charged with breaking and entering, he was sentenced to one year in prison but was let out on a six month probation where he had to work at his dad's shop to stay out. Then a girl came and she needed a hubcap for her Volkswagen bug, but they could not find one quickly so she left a drawing of the hubcap to make it easier. Later that night Louis went to the funeral home that the girls parents owned and where his moms funeral was. He saw the girl in her window and he went to the junkyard and sorted all of the hubcaps by make, model, and year that's how his dad always wanted the junkyard to be. He found the hubcap and took it to the girl. …show more content…
She started out by cutting her hair and dressing her up like a doll, that did not work. Then they went to taking quizzes out of magazines, that did not work. Finally they tried playing the piano so Jing-mei's mom made her take piano lessons the only problem was the teacher was deaf. After some lessons her mom signed her up for a talent show, the show did not go very well. When they got home Jing-mei got into an argument with her mom and she didn't play the piano again. At the end of the story her mom died and she was helping her dad clean out the house and she saw the piano and realized that all her mom wanted was for her to be the best she could