Star Food Dade Summary

The woman in Star Food was a shoplifter who Dade felt a connection to. He made it his goal to capture the woman, but he ended up letting her go. Dade let the woman go because he had expected to find his resolve and to really have a connection with the woman which he didn’t get. The first time the shoplifter stole from Star Food, Dade just “looked into her eyes when she walked out the front door” which caught him off guard (Canin 5). At this point of the story, he was still unsure about his resolve making him a young, insecure child at age eighteen without a clue about his future. He faced the pressures of having parents of two different mindsets with one pushing him to have “worldly curiosity” and the other wanting him to embrace the principles of “work and discipline” (5). The second time the woman shoplifted, Dade began to feel something different about her. The time where “the moment was an idea we had created for ourselves” was when Dade felt a real connection with the woman. Dade was unsettled by this encounter and he didn’t really get a response from either of his parents that he really agreed with. He really thought “the woman knew something about him” (11). Dade was looking for a connection with the woman since he wasn’t able to connect …show more content…
He wanted an answer that his parents couldn’t develop for him, and he ended up taking the woman to the stockroom before escaping with her. As they “kept walking… for about a few more blocks, Dade stopped as she continued” because he “felt alone in the world” (17). Dade wasn’t able to communicate with the woman like he had imagined. There was no real connection, and the “connection” he had felt clearly had not been felt by the woman. He simply “didn’t know what to say to her” even though he felt she really had had the answer to “knowing what he wanted”

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