Aunt Esther “Shells”By Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a fourteen-year-old boy who hast to but he needs to learn to live with his Aunt Esther because his parents died. He may say that he likes aunt esther but inside he really doesn't like her.They both don't get along and his aunt esther did not know that her sister would die.Michal is still depressed about his mom dieing.His aunt Esther is kind of being mean to him but what she does not realize is that that was his mom that died. Michael is lonely because his parents are gone and he takes his aunt esther for granite. Because she doesn't interact with him and everytime he gets home his aunt esther is always on the phone talking about michael.In paragraph