In Sarah Ellis, Gore short story, Amy the story’s protagonist uses her intelligence to outwit her brother Lucas into getting her book back. Amy made it evident in the beginning of the text that getting her stolen book back would not be a simple task. She states “I use whatever counter-weapon I have at my disposal.” (Ellis 2). Although Amy knows she cannot compete with her brother Lucas’s strength she finds her own way of outsmarting him by devising a plan/strategy in which she gets him out of the bathroom. Amy’s plan or as she called it “psychological warfare” consists of Amy convincing or manipulating her brother into believing that her actions are true. Amy at first tried to trick her brother by convincing or trying to bribe him like saying
