Letters By Adrian Ramirez Summary

This response letter belongs to Adrian Ramirez’ story. His story is about a guy name Ignatius, his father, and a girl name Evelyn struggling to get to the city in a post war United States. The themes I get from this story were survival, as shown how the characters behaviors, and trauma, as the main character is distant from everyone. The mystery surrounding what happen in this world is a very interesting aspect. It makes me what to know what happen here. What started the war? There so many interesting mysteries rewarding the history of the story that motivates you to want to know what happen. Another thing that I really enjoyed while reading this story was how consistent was the personality of Ignatius. His non emotional state is shown throughout the story in his interactions with Evelyn, which is understandable because in the situations he has hinted to be in the past cause by the war. This mental state from the main character is very realistic, we can see the effects of traumatic events, such as war, change people personality and distant themselves from everyone else. The last thing that I enjoyed …show more content…
The first thing that needs a little bit of work is the dialog. Not the conversations itself, but how they are executed. In some moments it’s hard to know who is talking, I needed to go back to see and remember who is talking and in what order is going the conversation. Thankfully this only happens in some instance and not in all the conversations in the story. The second thing that was confusing is the character Evelyn. What is up with this girl? Is she a ghost of something? She appears just like nothing and especially in moments of high danger. Also, the father does not mention her in any moment only or even mention her, the only person that knows about her is Ignatius. There is a lot of mystery surrounding this girl, and the details we got about are not that