Adolescence II

As the girl is in the bathroom "waiting" it is at night time. She is sweating as she waits nervously on the bathroom floor. Coming in from her blinds are slices of light. It is completely dark in the bathroom except for that ounce of light. Next, the three seal men are another example of an encounter to darkness. Seals have dark black skin and these particular ones have large round eyes with sharp eyelashes. Overall this particular man seal represents a dark mysterious feeling not only to the reader, but to the girl who sits alone in the bathroom. The seals rise "like pools of ink under

moonlight and vanish." They are dark and yet the girl can see glimpses of them by the light of the moon shining in. She "clutched at the ragged holes they leave behind, here at the edge of darkness." The girl hates the

darkness that surrounds her as it "rests like a ball of fur" on her tongue. A fur ball is usually associated with cats as they cough them up and spit them out. This girl must have a huge dislike of the darkness, which seems to consume her in the bathroom.