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The Bloody Souvenir Short Story

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Imagine a world where secrets cannot be told. People would be punished if they told a secret. That wasn 't really true; telling secrets was actually a helpful concept, and there were reasons why people should tell secrets. The book "The Bloody Souvenir" by Jack Gantos portrays a story about a boy who did not like to tell the truth and didn 't learn that critical situations are best told immediately at the end. The short story "Too many Tamales" by Gary Soto describes the story of a girl who wants to wear her mom 's ring but thinks that it got dropped into the tamales, but her mom actually wore it the whole time. Both stories tell kids that they should not keep secrets and tell the truth instead.
The book "The Bloody Souvenir" tells kids that they should tell an adult/guardian immediately before something gets worse. In the story, the narrator did not want to tell his mom what happened about his wart, so he tried to hide it up. But it gets worse and the narrator still did not want to tell his mom. The text says "That can 't be good, I quietly thought as i shrugged it off. So I 'll ignore it. But all day at school it would not be ignored. It burned. It …show more content…

It would help kids and their parents majorly. In The book "The Bloody Souvenir" by Jack Gantos, Jack did not like to tell the truth and learns that he should be honest because the conflict will just get worse when people aren 't honest. The short story "Too many Tamales" by Gary Soto describes the story of a girl named Maria who didn 't ask her mom where a ring is, so she had to rip open the tamales because she thought that the ring was inside one of the tamales, and remake them. Both stories tell that kids and adults should not keep secrets and tell the truth. Analyzing theme is important because it may have an important lesson that will help life and teach readers something to resolve a problem or conflict. Maybe told secrets wasn 't horrible after

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