”You’re tremendous, kid. You have to believe that”, is the emotional outcry to a lonely child, voiced by the protagonist of the short story “A Fortune” by Jay M. T. Sakaguchi. It is something that everyone wants to hear sometime in the course of his or her upbringing, but unfortunately, not all people do. And so the lack of love and appreciation can have dire consequences for the shaping of their personalities, as is very much the case of Sakaguci’s story.
The story is a first person narrative from the perspective of the protagonist, a young boy who has been brought up as a pickpocket by his father, and roams the streets, stealing wallets for a living. Even though his father has left him, he still seems to long for his appreciation. “I have this huge cardboard box full of money that I have hidden in the room I rent. (…) One day Pop will show up again. I’ll hand him the boxful of money, he will throw me some bills”. This seems to suggest that the protagonist misses his farther. He saves the money he has stolen, so that he can give them to him when he comes back, although there do not seem to be any clues in the text indicating that he will come back at all.
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