Talk:Heliotropes/@comment-6418997-20131109025955

Something I really liked about it is that it had a narrator type of feel to it. Which is very hard to do, because most of these stories are written in first person while this one isn't. I am trying to also figure out if this is supposed to symbolize life and death. The old man to me sounded like someone who just couldn't carry on anymore and is weak in life.

I also liked the animals, they to me symbolized either the truth or the evil in us. The boy crushed the spider because he didn't believe what he said because it was the truth. Then he felt regret for the spider showing that he felt sorry for what he had done. Even though it was just a spider isn't that how we do bad things. We do one bad thing and then we do another after we tell ourselves that we are going to stop.

It did remind me of lord of the flies were the boys start turning on themselves as well. 8.5/10 very well done. :D