The short story Romancing the Phone by John Larkin reveals to the target audience three aspects about human nature. The first human nature that this short story shows is love with Paul instantly falls for the new girl in class Jane. Larkin then displayed hate. This was when Phill pretends to be Jane on cyberspace to win a bet they had earlier made. The last type of aspect about social society that Larkin displayed was friendship. This was shown when Paul was able to overcome what Phill had just done and let it go for their friendship. Love was the biggest type of emotion that is show in basic …show more content…
This all started from Paul’s best friend Phill trying win a bet for some of Paul’s pocket money, but in order for him to do that he had to play a prank on him. That day Jane came to school. Paul was instantly head over heels for this girl so Phill used it as his ticket to get him. Later that night he pretended to be Jane and make Paul fall more and more in love with whom he thought was Jane when the only falling he was doing was into Phill’s trap and actually just talking to Phill the whole time. He then told Paul that he wanted to see him so Paul suggested the mall and he said that’s a good idea. Phill wanted to see how Paul would pull this off because he was lying the whole time about who he was. He was saying some ridiculous things like “I’ve met Tom Cruise”, “I’m the first teenager that NASA want to go to space” and that “I’ve beaten Kendrick Perkins in a swimming race”. Phill went to the mall to make sure Paul showed up, he then went home to finish his plan of pranking Paul. He wrote Paul a message saying he “was a creep, pretending to be someone he’s not just to talk to me. Phill then pretended to be every girl in class by ringing Paul and abusing him every time. He then finally rang Paul to tell him what he’d done. So in this story, Larkin displays the basic human nature of hate by using money. He shows the extent someone would go to and even emotionally hurt their friend and make them feel like a