Oakland Avenue is a story about 3 characters Mike, Chris, James, and Andrew that look back on their childhood as they attend their missing friend Chris's funereal. In the story it talks about the 4 kids as pranksters. they pulled pranks on neighbors and kept them up all night. However now 30 years later their adults and everything they did then is in the past.
When I read this story I realized at some time I'm going to be in their places. My friends and I sometimes play pranks and do stupid things but we forget we someday will grow out of all that and become adults. Mike Chris, James and Andrew in the very end leave a shoe filled with flowers on Mrs. Anderson's porch. I thought that was really sad because it was symbolizing both how Chris gave her flowers every weekend and how they all would prank people every friday.
The only problem with the story is that their is no conflict. the kids simply remember when they were 12 while they are at a funeral. (the author) wanted the reader to look back on their child hood however because i have little conflict their is also little relating. However after reading this story the author succeeded by making me wonder how i would feel about my childhood life. Would i be disappointed or ashamed. Sometimes we have to think about this and remember what we really want to be like as a kid and an adult. We do this so we remember not to throw it away by pranking people and doing other things we may think of as "stupid" because someday we will look back and judge our childhood and we in no way would want to make our future self feel ashamed.
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