The short story I chose to write about was Jinx. Within the story there are two best friends. These best friends started out walking together going to stores. Once they went to the record store with the cute guy that was there they had more jinxing moments, their laughing, and flirting techniques almost as if their jinx's were them just mimicking each other. By the end, the one girl went off and made out with the cute boy from the store, and the other friend was left out walking by herself. Although not together, they both thought of the cute bubble skirt at the same time. Completing their cycle of jinxes. After the one girl who ditched her friend to go make out with a dude, and the other walked away by herself their relationship steadily declined till it came a point to graduate where they pretend to be keep in touch.
To me, the tale showed change in life, the change of the past within the seconds. The stability of things can easily just leave. Almost like the double meaning of Jinx. You can jinx yourself or someone else, by purposely making mentioning it, as if you were taking away the luck of the situation. Or you could jinx your best friend as if to say you owe me a soda since you said the same thing at the same time.
Bender writes with magical realism, and in this story it was a institutional story. Not like there was floating bears throughout the story, but a basic high school drama friendship. Its pathetic that that's the simplest thing and then adding the term Jinx in the story can make the meaning of it dramatically change from pathetic high school petty drama to a double sided tale.
Her story was more than just a jinx of two freinds, it was a jinx of a friendship, a friendship that started strong, based on petty conversations ( i.e. about boobs and butts) to an ending friendship of not being able to remember the others phone number.
Nadia Abdallah
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