Graduate Program

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

2008

Thesis Director

Letitia Moffitt

Thesis Committee Member

Christopher Hanlon

Thesis Committee Member

Marjorie Worthington

Abstract

A narrator named Mario Podeschi watches a character named Mario Podeschi be sent back in time from graduate school to his freshman year of high school. A twenty-four year old in a fifteen year-old body, the Mario character retains aH of his old memories leading up to Spring of2008 and tries to use them to his own benefit at his small town Illinois high school. Fifteen year-old Mario readdicts himself to cigarettes, chases high school crushes, and distances himself from his old friends. Not that his second chance at high school is a complete failure~he finds his soulmate in Saturday detention, enjoys an unexpected notoriety among his peers, and manages a fairly mature relationship with his mother. Both his successes and failures tend to happen by accident, and by the end of the novella, his narrator can barely recognize him.

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