The Sin Bin or Lucy's Heart

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loyal angels, but he wanted more and ended up betraying God. So, God threw him out of his kingdom. It is almost the same with Lucy, she had a solid life, but she wanted more. Now she is paying for betraying her best friend in The Sin Bin. Lucy is drawing a heart in the detention room, and she starts with the rough pen, and the heart is awful. She keeps adding details to it, and it just gets worse and worse. After that she takes a new clean paper, and tries with the softest pen she has. This heart is beautiful, and Lucy knows it.

This represents how life is going to go for Lucy if she chooses the “rough” or the “soft” lifestyle. Even though life clearly works out better for her, when she is the smart girl that she likes to be. She decides to walk over to Bethan and continuing her road to hell.

It is as the Bible have stated, there is no redeeming fallen Angels. They had everything and they still decided to work against it.

A theme for this short story could be Influence. Lucy’s mother keeps telling Lucy what she can do, and what she is not allowed to do. Her teachers/school want her to be their big successor, so they want her to continue learning and develop her skills. Bethan wants her to be her best friend, and pressures her to smoke, wear makeup and punch poor Penny. Lucy does not want any of this, she just wants to make her own decisions for once.

Lucy wants to be the straight A student, but she cannot. Her mother tells her what to do constantly and the schools obsession to make her their successor keeps her from making her own decisions. When she finally could make her own decisions, she went to the extreme and now she can’t come back. She threw out her last hope with her drawing of a heart, and now she is stuck with a one-way ticket to hell.