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Through a desolate story, Bender depicts the irony of the young man's magical potential and implies that the power indirectly separates him from the society making him feel more alienated. At the beginning of the story, the main character of the story mysteriously develops a powerful talent of sensing and feeling the tug of remote lost objects, a few years after the deaths of his parents. Bender uses the magical realism to fill the absence of the young man's parents and balances his lonesomeness with the mysterious power that is designed to find his lost parents. As a rule, people usually tend to keep a distance from abnormalities in their lives, and the neighbors of the young man were not exceptions. Neighbors discovered the young man's abilities when he magically found the lost hair brush of his girlfriend's mother in the kitchen drawer. Not surprisingly, his girlfriend thought that he did that intentionally in order to impress her mother and broke up with him. These types of skeptical reactions and ,consequently, abandonments were not novel for the protagonist, as some people considered his skills superstitious and thought he slyly deceives them to get attention. Although some people appreciated his skills and frequently utilize them for their personal purposes, overall effect was negative and he ended up being alone. Bender suggests that in the process of the isolation, the young man himself plays a great role.

In addition, Bander argues that the supernatural skills are sometimes incomprehensible even for people who obtain that power. Bander states, "The young man didn't know himself. All he knew was the feeling of a tug, light but insistent, like a child at his sleeve, and that tug would turn him in the right direction and show him where to look." In other words, the writer believes that the young man uses his power of finding objects instinctively feeling it, not by reasoning. Bender emphasizes the young man's unawareness of his skills in the part of the story when a child is kidnapped and his mother, Mrs Allen, desperately called him for assistance. This was particularly challenging task for the young man, as he had never found anybody stolen besides lost objects. Usually he felt the tug of the objects that initially belonged to someone else or felt the smell of objects that were replaced from somewhere else. As expected, he wasn't able to find the boy, until he knew that the child was wearing a blue shirt, which was accidentally informed to him by Mrs. Allen, who answered the policeman's questions. Bender implies that the ignorance of one's own potential leads to unhappiness, particularly in the case of the young man, as he couldn't find himself because of his power limitations. Specifically, he was able to find lost objects when he knew the location of the object's origin, consequently, he didn't know himself as he couldn't find his parents. Ironically, the magical power has an opposite effect on him, making him even more heartbrokenBender'ss playful and bright way of writing draws the reader's whole attention and urges to explore more in the story, as she conveys her ideas in an idiomatic way making the magical story more realistic. The writer's use of rich and descriptive language beautifies the seclusion of the young man. Bender writes, "He [the young man] went home to his tiny room and thought about the word lonely and how it sounded and looked so lonely with those two l's in it, each standing tall by itself. " Besides the detailed observation of the word lonely, Bender also repeats it twice, creating the themes of sadness and closure at the same time. The repetition of certain words is a powerful way of emphasizing your thoughts and emotions, that Bender masters in her short story. She writes, "Son, he said, and the word rolled around, a marble on a marble floor, Son, he wanted to say.

The author stresses the absence of the young man's parents by deliberately repeating the word 'Son' and highlights the loss of the young man. Unexpected changes of the storyline combined with the open-ended questions makes the last part of the story fascinating as gives the reader a chance to see what is happening inside the young man's head. She writes, "He squeezed his eyes shut and let the question bubble up: Where did you go? Come find me. I'm over here, Come find me." Bender advocates the idea that the unhappiness and the alienation of the young man is connected to the absence of his parents, as he refers to his parents when saying "Come find me." Here again we observe the repetitive usage of the phrase "Come find me", that makes the emotions of the tug more lasting.

Ultimately, Bender argues that the loss of a close person leads to sadness and loneliness, and often times even a magical talent is not enough for overcoming that pain and filling the absence of that person. In particular, the young man's inability to find his lost parents even with the special object finding gifts ultimately lead him to depression and isolation. While, the superpower or magical potential relieve the depression of the loss, in some cases they give opposite effect, making lives even more miserable and meaningless. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" id="mce_marker">​</span>

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