Miracle Boy (Short Story)
In the story "Miracle Boy" by Pickney Benedict, Lizard changes, beginning the story as a bully by pushing around Miracle Boy and ends the story as a more respectable boy. Lizard, Geronimo, Eskimo Pie, and Miracle Boy all lived in a small town and attended school together. Miracle Boy's name came from a farm accident he got into a few years back, which resulted in both of his feet being reattached. After school one day, the three boys cornered Miracle Boy, ordering him to show them the scars on his ankles, " Lizard and Geronimo and Eskimo Pie asked him one last time they were being patient with him because he was a cripple and then they knocked him down" (Benedict 303). After Miracle Boy was pushed to the ground, they stripped him of his pants, socks and shoes. His pants and socks were hung over the sagging woven-wire fence and his shoes dangling from the electrical line. Once Miracle Boy got home, he told his father what the boys had done to him. Miracle Boy's father called Lizard's mother and told her what Lizard, Geronimo and Eskimo pie had done to him. As Lizard's punishment, Miracle Boy came over to his house and watched Dinosaurus! Geronimo and Eskimo Pie got a hiding from their father. Every day on Lizard's way home from school, he would see Miracle Boy's shoes dangling from the electrical line, which served as a reminder of the day they bullied him, "his shoes hung up in the wires, on display like some kind of trophy, in good weather and in bad" (Benedict 306). Lizard sneaks out of his house one night, by himself to retrieve the shoes from the electrical line, risking his life. Once Lizard gets the sneakers, he makes his way to Miracle Boy's house to return them., Miracle Boy's father answers the door and becomes impatient with him and ignores the sneakers. Miracle boy comes to the door, "Lizard could not believe that Miracle boy was happy to see him" (Benedict 313). What made Lizard different from the rest of the boys, and the reason he acted alone...
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