Checkouts
Theme:
They don’t take initiative to get each other
Voice:
This short story has a third-person point of view, with an omniscient narrator.
Mood:
Uncomfortable because they didn’t want to talk when they had chances to have a relationship.
Tone:
Maybe funny because they both were too shy to talk to one another because of what the other would think.
Conflict:
Internal:
Man vs self: that they were too shy so they preferred to not talk with the other because they were afraid about what the other would think.
- External:
Man vs man: the girl liked the bag boy and the bag boy liked the girl but neither of them wanted to talk to each other.
Man vs society: When the boy was working in the library and a lot of girls wanted a date with him but he didn’t want to.
Climax:
The girl doesn’t get in the bag boy's checkout line and leaves without talking to him.
Resolution:
They both were with their dates, and they just smiled at each other, and stayed walking.
Conclusion:
The conclusion for the story is that if the bag boy and the girl would have talked instead of assuming things about themselves, they could have been together.
