Until the Bring the Streetcars Back

Hot Foot Saves The Day In Stanley Gordon West’s novel Until They Bring The Streetcars Back, Calvin Gant realizes that what goes around comes around. Cal learns this lesson through meetings with Hot Foot the rabbit and Peggy Gant, Cal’s younger sister. “… the cottontail had a safe home for the night.” (West 12) is a foreshadow that the rabbit will come back to help him. Cal, like other teens, may think twice about helping a hopeless animal. Calvin was not one of those teenagers. Cal found a couple of younger kids beating a rabbit. Cal interfered with the beatings and saved the helpless rabbit. Cal later started calling the rabbit Hot Foot. Calvin nursed Hot Foot back to health, with help from Peggy, and released it. Later that (week, month, year) Cal was being attacked by Otto Lutterman, Gretchen’s abusive father. Peggy came outside and said, ”QUOTE” (West…). She did this to make sure no one was lurking in the darkness to attack her. She ran outside and fed Hot Foot and found Calvin bruised and battered. Try to think of a time when someone was helped and later that same person needed the same assistance. Kids are a perfect representation of that. The younger one will want something and the older one will say no. Later, the older one will want something and the younger one will say no, maybe in revenge. Thankfully, sometimes the same happens in a positive way. One will share candy with the other and then the other will do the same the next day. Karma is in what goes around, comes around. I think karma is essentially what the lesson goes by. What goes around to me means that you helped someone and did something helpful. What comes around is the good consequence that happens after you did the good deed. You might, for example, Go to Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit organization, to pack food and ship it to a developing country that needs a lot of