No Trust No Heartbreak

(Authors Note: In this essay I compare three totally different people and find the one thing that all of them have in common.)

“You have to trust me.” Jacob, Stacey’s love of her life, didn’t want her to get hurt.  After all, he had come so far to save her. Stacey had to trust Jacob, but she went against her own heart and instead left him in the hall with a bruise on his head.  Maybe that’s why she ended up with a vicious murderer pinning her into the ground pressing a hammer into her cheek.  This part of White is for Magic is where the author, Laurie Stolarz, inferences on the fact that for Stacey to resolve her past she had to learn to trust the people she loved in the present. 

As Stacey slowly started trusting people, she was starting to resolve her past.  Maura was the first person she ever really loved and trusted entirely, though she was now 6 feet beneath the ground.  Murdered by a stranger who went by the name of Miles Parker.  Stacey much preferred to call him jerk face, but for the sake of public trials she had to settle for calling him Mr. Parker.  Though, you could clearly see now why her optimistic and vulnerable attitude closed out the world and let no one earn her trust.

                Shutting out and finding everyone untrustworthy was a way Stacey protected herself from getting hurt, much like Haymitch in the Hunger Games.  He convinced himself that everyone had their ugly side that would betray and hurt with no regret.  Soon, Haymitch made you realize that he himself sometimes turned into that ugly unbearable side as he taught Katniss and Peeta to make people like you, and then turn your back to win the Hunger Games.  This only made his trusting issue more visible. Even though he tried to cover it back up with whisky and beer, people had become aware of his problems.  

                Sometimes the trust isn’t lost in the early years. Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451 had always put his soul into burning books.  Once he realized how much information was contained inside the leather covers, he attempted to cause a revolution that would make stories known to the whole city.  No one was the ‘good guy’ anymore because you couldn’t guess how much they might know. 

                Guy Montag, Haymitch, and Stacey all shut themselves out because of not wanting to get hurt or show any kind of feelings towards anything. Later in all the books though they earn peoples loyalty, respect, and most important-trust.  When people started showing this feeling towards them, their inferior attitudes broke down and they paid the same trust and affection towards others.