Permission

     The story started out with a conversation between the narrator and a headmistress. She seemed to be telling him about how one is defined based on how they are able to control their own lives. The beginning of the conversation was confusing because the headmistress told him to imagine what would happen if a dog bit her all over. I also can see in one point in the conversation where the headmistress tells him to just stand back and let his children in bus. The narrator somehow does not want to leave the children alone and then all of a sudden he described the surroundings of the bus, which sounds like a peaceful neighborhood, and one of the houses there seems to be his wife's. Then he starts talking about the feels he gets about his wife and then about the feelings of the past deep within her. And that that something of the past happen to be another son brought up; a son that was...