Love Behind The Shadows Analysis

“Love Behind The Shadows” is a short story based on a twenty year old girl named Ivory Grayson, whose mother made a compromise with an orphanage center before her death to care for her daughter, after Ivory’s father, Harold Davis abandons them. Alternatively, Ivory was later accepted to University of California in Santa Cruz and becomes friends with her sisters, Ruby and Lauren Davis, which she is unaware of at first. There is a sudden twist when she comes across her father and he demands her to move in with his family and him, but she has other ideas running through her mind. Furthermore, Ivory falls in love with an arrogant, abusive, and brassy boy named, Emrick Dancy, who is afraid to express his feelings towards her because of his identity. …show more content…
In my story it states, “I forcefully seat myself in his car and look out of the tinted window thinking about how easily I trapped myself in a birdcage.” (Dhami) This proves the connection between Ivory’s situation and the bird cage because she doesn’t know how to leave the cage without guidance. She has freedom, however not enough to maintain herself from falling down and convincing herself to come back up. Regardless of the lack of differences, Ivory does agree to return back to her father with the intention of having a relationship with Emrick because he has invited her for a dinner date later that night. In particular, Ivory states, “‘[Mr. Davis] left my mother and me surrounded by trees. That’s the only shade we had, where were you! Where!’” (Dhami) According to her statement, she indicates the fact that her and her mother, Alina had nowhere to settle, and they had to build themselves up because her mother only had a few days left with her. The reason behind her independence has always been her mother and not him, because she has always been motivating her to make her future, and not wait for it to