In Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” he ends the story with these words,
That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.
Capote expresses Buddy’s feeling of loss over his cousin’s death. Their friendship was odd due to the age difference, but not in their feelings of love toward each other. Throughout the years, when they lived in the same house, each Christmas Buddy and his cousin exchanged hand-made kites. Buddy thinks back to the contented times when he and his cousin flew their kites in the pasture as a means of escaping the confines of their restrictive home life. He feels like he lost a piece of his heart as a result of his friend’s death. As Buddy trudges across the school campus, he looks heavenward thinking about a lost pair of kites, which represents the friends. Her heart is compared to a lost kite and he imagines that his is drifting off to heaven along with hers.
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