The Return of the Vignettes

So I looked through other peoples' vignettes and looked for parallels between theirs and mine. For example, in Mercedes' vignettes, she speaks, at one point, about losing family pets.

"We lost a lot of pets that year too... it seemed like they all got old suddenly and at the same time..." 

In my own vignettes, I also talk about losing a lot of pets while living at one certain house. This is in my vignette titled 'Bees'. For both of us, this death of animals has a great impact on the lives that we portray in our vignettes.


Elizabeth shows a different kind of fear in her vignettes. In her last vignette she talks about a monster that her and two boys are afraid of. In reality, there was no monster, nothing to be afraid of, kind of like how bees are nothing to be afraid of.


In Constance's vignettes, the fear that I'm finding is much more subdued, much more beneath the surface. Her character Feliciano is secretly a very shy person. He conceals his secret by acting like other people, which he is comfortable with. But when he begins wearing this amazing vest, his confidence plummets.

"In his ordinary, inconspicuous dress, it was easy to impose the pretend Felicianos over the real one. The vest, though, in its aggressive fanciness, was powerful enough to dispel the illusion. It couldn't be hidden by an assumed identity, and exposed the person beneath."

Feliciano is terrified of having his own personality, his shyness, 'exposed'. Just as someone might be afraid of bees, of losing beloved pets, or of monsters, someone may also be afraid of just being themselves.