So, no matter how horrible the sound, it's best to stay very quiet and avoid calling any attention to yourself.
-- Narrator (Blessed Deliverance)

Importance: In this scene from "Blessed Deliverance," the unnamed protagonist's identity begins to emerge from the first person plural narration. The narrator is sitting at home in his room listening to his father cry. His learned response to his father's crying clarifies the way in which the narrator and his friends have related to Headass over time. At the same time, this moment marks a turning point in the narrator's consciousness, and foreshadows his change of perspective at the story's end. For years, he has learned to ignore others out of self-preservation. In time, however, he will learn that to relate to and understand others, he must be vulnerable with them.

I was not the kind to be noticed.
-- Narrator (The Let-Out)

Importance: In "The Let-Out," the first person narrator goes to the museum around...