Quote: pg.157, "Young Master Massimo"
"Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know. Bo didn't seem particularly bothered by the whole thing. He was quite happy to touch the lions' heads by the fountain and to dip his hands into the cold water. But Prosper felt terrible. He felt betrayed. Decieved. What was Scipio doing in this house? Who was he really?
Notes:
This passage was pretty powerful. How true? All of us know how Prosper is feeling here; sweaty palms, pounding heart, flighty stomach, and a feeling of rage. Prosper feels that he has been decieved by Scipio, and he has. Scipio had been protecting Prosper and his friends and led them to believe that he, like them, was also an orphan. When Prosper found out that Scipio was from a wealthy family and, instead of sleeping in a drafty dark theatre, he slept in a warm bed in a luxurious home he was enraged. I can see why Prosper resented him.
After reading only this far, I also resented Scipio. I felt that he was toying with the orphans and this "Thief Lord" role was just a game to him. After further reading I found that Scipio truly cared for them all and sacrificed quite a bit to save them.
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I totally felt the same way about Scip, that it was all a game to him and he enjoyed being admired by the gang.
ReplyDeleteGAHHHH!!! I hated Scipio when I read this part. It's like he was 'playing' poor little orphan street kid. That would make me so angry to know that even though someone helped me they really weren't what they said they were. I would feel like they were mocking me. It's so sad to think of children on the street. At the end though Scipio came through for them and helped them. I hate he wasted his childhood though. For me it would be the other way around, I was never in a hurry to grow up.
ReplyDeleteWhen I reached this part I couldn't help but be angry with Scipio. Just another rich kid amusing himself at the expense of the more unfortunate of course! I'm glad I turned out to be wrong :)
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