In a complete opposite universe for the Lisbon girls

AOI and such

My AOI is communication and story telling as survival tools. My questions are who survives by communicating and who dies by the lack? why do those who survive do so? How is possible people are completely shut out (lisbons)? How do false stories aid or hinder survival.
This is the story of the boys telling their story. The passage on 182 that starts with "how long could we remain true to the girls?" show how the boys are reflecting in this moment and realizing the story they had been telling is wrong. They say "our talismans ceased to work" (182), showing their loss of communication with the girls whom the boys were unsure about the level of interest of the girls. It helped them function thinking the girls shared similar interests. This fallacy was beneficial to the boys during the time when they originally struggling to figure out the girls and what was going on but once they realized their thinking was skewed, the inaccuracy hurt them because they lost the confidence in their observational skills that they thought they had.

*reads salad section

Area's of Interest (FTB)

 The Myth of american Happiness (AOI)
- Difference between detroit and wealthy suburb
- False Paradise (rotting flowers)
- Lawns
- Flowers
- Day of grieving

Isolation(AOI)
False Protection(AOI)
Blame(AOI)
Story as Tool to Survive(AOI)
Gender(AOI)
Sex and Sexuality(AOI)
Burning/Light(AOI)
Loss of Innocence(AOI)
Narration, Passive/Active(AOI)

Little sauce back to Trip

Not gonna lie I thought Trip was a baller, but when he basically ditched Lux I was like, "Sir!!!"

This doesn't have anything to do with my area of interest but I just thought it was interesting. I was playing squash with a French girl that goes to Trinity the other day and I asked her if she wanted to stay in the United States after college. And she replied "yes I would never want to go back to France. Everyone is so angry all the time. I know people say Americans are really fake but I'd rather work with people who are at least pretending to be happy…it's much more pleasant and it's not like everyone is fake..it's actually quite easy to find genuine people". This related to  when the narrators were talking about Mrs. Karafilis and she said "What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time" (169). It was just a coincidence because I was just talking about it to my squash instructor.

When Asha asks you a question in class