Dear Aiden,
The change I have seen in you is amazing. When I first heard that I was going to be tutoring a boy-beast I wasn’t sure what to expect. Although they said your appearance would be horrific what truly scared me was your attitude; you viewed life as something to throw away, something that was given not earned, and you were lost in your own selfishness. But as I continued to tutor you I saw you evolve. When you began to plant roses and construct your green-house you found life by caring for those of others, when in a conversation you said to me, “I help them, you know. When I see one that’s turning brown but it doesn’t fall off, I help it. The thorns don’t bother me too much. I heal up.”(p.124) I saw a turning point in your life, you stopped caring so much about your well-being and started to consider those of not only other humans, but also living things. I have to say when I first started tutoring you, no matter how much I got paid, I was unsure whether I would continue. You were lazy and just sat around sulking all day, no interest to absorb the knowledge I had to offer you. I remember I told you that, “I was hired as a tutor, and lately all that means is that I receive an enormous amount of money to stay here and catch up on my reading.”(p.124) Yet I’m glad I decided to stay. I know that looks were always a big deal to you in your past, you told me that you always had it easy because everyone thought you were beautiful and you took advantage of those people, yet when your looks were taken away I believe they made you a better person. The most dramatic change in you, I have to say, is when you invited Lindy to stay with us. At first you tried to force her into spending time with you, and that obviously didn’t work because it made you look more like a monster, but then as you got to know the young lady you became the perfect gentleman. I remember while I was tutoring both you and Lindy you let her answer the questions because you stopped making things all about you and you thought to yourself, “Having read the poem twenty times, I thought I knew what it meant. But now I held back. I realized I wanted to let her be smart.”(p.191) That was only the beginning, as Lindy continued her stay with us I realized that you would never be the same stuck up boy that you once were, you were transitioning into an intelligent young man. It was hard to see you falling in love with Lindy (figuratively not literally because I was blind) because you were holding back because of the way you thought she felt about you. When we went to stay in your fathers cabin out in the middle of no-where surrounded by snow you let your guard down. You stopped locking the door like you used to before because you were scared of Lindy leaving and you began understanding that there must be trust in order for someone to love you back. I think that the point at which you truly transitioned from the young sinister boy Kyle to the caring young man Adrian was when you asked the witch who cast your spell to allow me to see and Magda your maid to go home to her family. Through all of your selflessness you were able to give Lindy the love that you deserved and have it returned to you. Now that you broke the curse although you may be attractive once again you have become so much more, you even gave me my sight back. Thank you, Aiden, for becoming who you are today.
Kind Regards,
Will.
