Most of the time, central characters personalities and their views on life undergo changes throughout a story. In “And Summer is Gone,” by Susie Kretschmer, the narrator’s has conflicts his friend, similar to how Wes from Ernest Buckler's “Long, Long After School,” develops a strong bond with his teacher, which near the end, both central characters have realizations. The epiphanies that these characters have shape them by making them reflect on themselves which changes their personalities.
The actions of the significant characters in the protagonists’ lives impact their personalities. When Amy laughed at the painting that the narrator drew, he “knew [he] had lost her… Amy is gone.” The narrator admits and realizes that Amy is no longer his. However, he does not hate Amy for turning her back on him but instead he appreciates the things that she has done for him because “for the person she’d been for [him] had not existed for anyone else.” Although the narrator and Wes lost someone who is special to them, Wes actually did lose his special someone. Miss Tretheway's death made Wes appreciate the things she has done for him even more. He explains how‘“[Miss Tretheway] was beautiful….she was a real lady.”’ The hardships experienced by these two protagonists in their corresponding stories impacts…show more content… Miss Tretheway '"used to come to see [Wes] ever day....and [bring him] books."' Currently, his house is "furnished with almost nothing but book," and he can make quotations from any book. This shows that Miss Tretheway's doings has made him who he is today, a "caretaker-about-town. The narrator's hobbies is also impacted by someone who is close with him. Amy introduces the narrator to the creek and that is where they make dams and pyramids. This transformed Wes into adoring the Aztecs which influenced his paintings, since in the end, he painted "a great Aztec