Much like the change in "Bartelby", my own life is undergoing a shift as well. I can't tell where I'll end up by this time next year, but the process of change is already beginning to take place. As the story is fast and sneaks up on you with great subtlety, college applications and my future has snuck up on me as well. It seems like only yesterday that I walked through the Burlingame High School doors as a freshman and soon I will be walking out as a new person entirely, much like how Bartelby and the narrator ended the story as completely new men. I have realized from this past week that what sometimes needs to change is the setting that a character is in or the people they are surrounded by as well as the character itself to effectively take the story forward, and I believe my change of setting and friends will be a hard shift but will ultimately take me forward successfully in my own story.
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