| The Kool-Aid
Wino An Essay by Anna Liebers When I think of the title "Kool-Aid Wino," I think of someone or some child that more or less is addicted to Kool-Aid. He drinks Kool-Aid all the time. Kool-aid is all that interests him; he doesn't want to do anything else but have a glass in hand. It could be someone or a child that has that famous Kool-Aid stain smile. Maybe he could be addicted to sugar by way of Kool-Aid. Maybe he just loves the Kool-Aid flavors, and does not want to drink anything else. For some reason the Kool-Aid is very special to him, it could be his escape from his everyday life, or the highlight of his day. I feel that the boy/person referred to as the 'Kool-Aid wino' is a positive character. I am taking the position of a young man living close to this boy/person as, lets say, a neighbor. This story is a sad story to me because of the poorness of the family. They could not afford medical treatment for the boy/person, nor proper bedding, not even a cup of sugar for his Kool-Aid. However, the
boy/person took what he had)with his environment, and
made the best out of them. I gathered that he seemed to
find some sort of joy in the kool-aid ceremony. He was
never complaining about his rupture, his home, or his
breakfast. He seemed to have only one thing on his mind,
the Kool-Aid. He was being positive about his ceremony, he was happy to have the Kool-Aid, even without the sugar, or diluted. He put it above doing the dishes, above his mother's command, and careful not to spill a drop ..... In the seemingly hopeless world he lived in, the 'Kool-Aid wino' was as positive as he could be, with his Kool-Aid ceremony. Back
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