Double Entry Diary

Page 53, Chapter 6
Riccio shook his head with astonishment. "No. Why? It's great being young. You don't stand out so much and your stomach fills up more quickly. You know what Scipio always says?" He jumped from the bridge onto the street. "Children are like caterpillars and adults are like butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar." "Probaby not," Prosper sighed.
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I thought this paragraph was very "child like." I could definitely see a child saying these things. Here are two boys, adventurous and poor, doing things children shouldn't do. Riccio says he loves being young, and I think most kids would say that. I just laughed when he said being young is when your stomach fills up more, because my stomach fills up pretty quickly-when I eat too fast! I don't think that happens just to kids! The best part of this paragraph is the last sentence. This brought back many memories of being a child...losing my first tooth, getting my first boom-box and Michael Jackson CD (DON'T laugh!), going shopping with my mom's Belk credit card...the list could go on and on! I would love to be a kid again, and I'm sure many of us would. (Especially the shopping part...Oh, how I miss that!) Becoming a butterfly takes alot of responsibility and courage. Only a child would think that when they get older, they will forget everything that they've been through. For an adult, on the other hand, they want to forget some of the memories from childhood and growing up. Whether good or bad, I think we all remember time in our childhood.