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The Blue Bouquet
The Blue Bouquet Millions of people around the word have been in a situation that has transitioned them from innocence to experience. In this story a boy wakes up to go for a walk outside, after not listening to the boardinghouse owner, and ended up going through a horrible experience. He transitioned from feeling safe in his little town, to feeling a sense of horror. In “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz, readers must realize that people go through lots of experiences in their life time, good or bad that transition them from innocence to experience, because it is part of human life and we have no control over the things that happen to us, which result in different emotions and feelings. People must understand that everybody goes through experiences, good or bad, and in the end it changes the person that they once were. In this story the protagonist went from innocence to experience. He felt safe in his small town he lived in. “I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.” The air is fresh and the sky is clear. From reading the story, one can tell that this village is very peaceful and desolate. “A gray-winged butterfly, dazzled, circled the yellow light.” This statement can show his innocence at the start of the story. Butterflies are symbolized as the innocence he once had, before everything had happened. At this point in the story he had nothing to be afraid of; even in the night he awoke and wanted to go outside for some fresh air in the darkness. “I plunged into the darkness. At first I couldn’t see anything.” A few moments after the protagonist was walking down the street, he had felt a shadow getting closer with every step he took. Suddenly he stopped and before he could do anything, he felt a knife in his back. “I felt the point of a knife in my back, and a sweet voice: “Don’t move, mister.”” At this point in the story the protagonist went through the transition of being an

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