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A 3 page paper which offers up a response to The City of Shells by Karen Russell. No additional sources cited.
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short story titled The City of Shells. It is not necessarily a straightforward story for it has no clear beginning or end. But, in reading this story the reader can
find many different themes and meanings. The following paper discusses, in response form, how the story can be seen as one that speaks of an inability to come of age
in the face of nature as the young girl in the story seems to be heading for a sort of primordial insanity. Response Paper on The City of
Shells by Karen Russell The story essentially revolves around a young man, Barnaby, whose job is to clean enormous conch shells at the City of Shells. He does not like
his job, does not do it well, and is seemingly haunted by the stories told of the conch shells that sound off music at night, something he has never heard.
The legends essentially note that a person could go insane being pulled into the music of the shells. Part of him, in light of his being young, believes it, but
part of him feels it is a ridiculous legend until one night when he hears noises from a shell only to find that a girl, Big Red, is trapped within
a shell. Barnaby is a young man who feels somewhat bad because he knows he is not nice in thinking her being stuck is a nuisance to him, but
he attempts to help her anyways, and finds himself in the shell, stuck along with Big Red. Big Red is a confusing character who is very childish but also obviously
the victim of some sexual abuse by her mothers boyfriend and this is something she can apparently not deal with as she is incapable of understanding it. Perhaps like
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