1. About A Boy
The deep red tone on his jacket, with its star-embedded buttons and lace collar, establishes a prestigious material. ... The eyes of the child are also so real it seems as though they are following you wherever you go. ... His eyes convey the message of boredom and disinterest, while his lips are upturned in a playful, mischievous manner. ...
His kind, infinite eyes, and he carrying his mast like Jesus and his cross only augment his Christ-like personage. ... Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio is injured with a heel spur. ...
Tim focuses on the man he killed unable to remove his eyes from him as he looks at the wounds he inflicted on him by throwing the grenade even as Kiowa, one of the soldiers in his company, repeatedly tells him to stop staring. ... The other was a star-shaped hole" (page 90). ...