Until They Bring The Streetcars Back, Cal Gant

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Elements of literature In Stanley Gordon West's Until They Bring the Streetcars Back, Cal Gant, an eighteen-year-old high school senior that's going through a world of promises, cover-ups, love, friendship, family drama and a struggle to expose the horrible truths without exposing himself. Set in 1949 and 1950 in St. Paul, MN, Cal's high school innocence is broken by a revelation from a school peer Gretchen Lutterman. There are three elements that found interesting and character, conflict, theme were the ones that I chose. Calvin Gant is a high school senior at Central and is a star athlete. He has a good group of friends and is in love with one of the girls in his group. Cal is a dynamic character because he changes throughout the book. In the start of the book he was …show more content…

Much of the book has one startling development after another to the shock of the characters. One of the problems Cal was facing is that he doesn't have the power to help someone that's going through something. And Cal gets angry because "Going through high school, there was always a surprise about someone or something unexpected floating around in the social circles. I believe this is relatable to the average reader in that they no doubt have heard horrible rumors about their classmates and wondered who to talk to or how to solve the problem. In Streetcars, there were major and supporting themes. Looking through this book, I found love the major themes with popularity, success and honesty to be supporting themes. The book provided a great opportunity for discussion of these themes. The events surrounding the themes and how they play out, not perfectly, are true to real life and many situations some teenagers face. At every tough decision we hear Cal's inner thoughts, the options he has and how these could play out until the platform of the major

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