One passage that was emotionally charged to me was paragraph 3 on page 70. “In that last year of elementary school, wealth became our obsession. We talked about it the way characters in novels talk about searching for treasure. We said, when we’re rich we’ll do this, we’ll do that. To listen to us, you might think that the wealth was hidden somewhere in the neighborhood, in treasure chests that, when opened, would be gleaming with gold, and were waiting for only us to find them.”

This Passage stood out to me because this instance of relating an education to wealth is something that can be seen not only across genres but in real life as well. There is such an innocence to the thought that those who have not had the chance to grow up with the most stability will be able to reach that “treasure” of financial security and the hope of achieving something better in life. This is just an example of the parallels of fiction and real-life and how these feelings and experiences can be reflected onto and related to the audience.