Am I Blue?

        The short story "Am I Blue?" by Bruce Coville was very touching. From the fact that someone was even killed because he was different. This story is about a boy who is bullied because people think he is gay. But  one day after he was being bullied he was visited by a fairy godfather.

        Melvin, who is the fairy godfather of Vincent, the boy who is being bullied, was killed because he was gay... or because people thought he was gay. They thought that they should "teach him a lesson" but they killed him. Melvin goes to heaven and comes back as a fairy godfather instead of a guardian angel, which he was supposed to be. Vincent, who does not know if he is gay or not was chosen by Melvin because he works with similar issues like the one that Vincent has. They are also similar because he both bullied for the same reason. But that all changed when they turned all the gay people in the world, blue.

        Vincent doesn't want people to know that he is gay. He is not proud of it by the way he is acting, but he doesn't know if he is gay to begin with. But all those insicurities go away Melvin makes Vince see people who are homosexual, blue. There were different shades of blue depending on how gay you are. If you more gay you were the bluer you were.

        The interesting part of the story was toward the end, once Vince decided what he wanted one of his wishes to be. His wish was to turn everyone from coast to coast blue, that is of course depending whether or not they were homosexual. It was even more interesting when he found out that the boy that was bullying him, was gay himself.

        I think the moral of this story is to not be afraid to be different. And if you are different, you are not the only one. It is not whether people see you but it is how you see yourself. I also think that another moral may be don't be afraid of what other people think about you. The story was kind of touching even though it was fictional.