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The last stop on market street summary7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Enhancing a text that flows like poetry, Robinson's artwork shifts between a thirdperson view of the action and Milo's naïve crayon-like images. Maybe the bride is wedding a wife maybe the breaker crew is welcomed home by the ritzy doorman. And a thought occurs to him: Maybe you can't really know anyone just by looking at their face"). When they finally exit and make their way into a line forming at a large, impersonal building, Milo sees the little boy again and realizes they are on the same mission: to visit their incarcerated mothers ("Milo studies the boy in the suit, his dad rubbing his thin shoulders. The image that will haunt him later in the day is the blue-eyed, spit-shined boy about his age who's holding hands with his equally pulled-together father surely he lives a life of luxury in a castle. ![]() There's a trio of breakdancers, and he pictures them profiled and shunned by a white shop owner and a doorman ("Milo doesn't really like this picture, so he puts away his pad"). Today there's a lady in a bridal dress he pictures her floating joyously into the air with her new husband in a hot air balloon. One Sunday each month, Milo and his older sister take a subway ride that always makes him feel like "a shook-up soda." He dives into his sketchbook, drawing pictures of people on the subway into scenes of his own imagining. De la P eña, M att Milo Imagines the World illus.
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