Stuart Baum's The Boy Who Could Turn Into Things

“And Brian without thinking said to himself I wonder what it would be like to be that frisbee and “POOF” he was that frisbee.” Could you imagine what it would be like being a frisbee all day and all night. In the story “The Boy Who Could Turn Into things” By Stuart Baum, Brian the main character experiences this with many other objects also. Brian doesn’t like being around people who don’t notice him, because it makes him feel so lonely. He shows this by turning into things to get away from people so they can’t ignore him and also he had no friends to hang out with.

One reason proving Brian turns into things to get away from people is, in the story it said “Brian knew the answer from the question, but the teacher never called on him so he didn’t even bother to raise his hand.” Then moments after that he turned into a frisbee to get away from people because they were ignoring him. This shows that, Brian is so hurt from being ignored, he turns into things so people can’t ignore him. In addition, when Brian turns into things no one notices not even people sitting right next to him. This shows how much people ignore him and how lonely he is. Lastly, once, during the story two older boys were making fun of him and …show more content…
For instance, in the story it stated “He was always by himself no one seemed to noticed” No matter what he did no one ever noticed him. I know this proves that Brian is lonely because no one notices him or even sees him. Furthermore, Brian was so sad and ignored, he didn’t even know what it was like to have someone sit across from him at lunch as stated in the story “He wondered what it would be like to have someone sitting across from him at lunch, a friend.” Lastly, in the story it showed Brian was a pro at landing on a tree as a bird. This illustrates that Brian had been a bird many times before and this shows how lonely Brian’s life