After reading Allison Baker’s “ Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight” it made me realize that discovering one’s self is a situation our world is going through right now. In her short story one of Allison Baker’s main characters, Zach tells his best friend of thirty-eight years that he is going to have a sex change. Zach tells Byron that he feels trapped in the wrong body and that he is going …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…a decision to be. Like in the story Byron makes the decision for his son and says he’ll grow up to be a man. That might be what his father wants for him, but Toby might have other plans. In the end of the story, where Byron says “ Toby Glass, who could grow up to anything,” I think Byron has come to terms that he will love his child no matter what the situation.