Russell’s snow is pure, innocent and cold. Russell and his brother have just decided that they are going to look at a car that a few days prior had fallen into the ice. He lies to his parents, ‘We’re driving to Navarre, I said. ‘Ben had to get his skates sharpened. My stepfather’s eyebrows started to go up; exchanged a glance with my mother-the usual pantomime of skepticism.’ When Ben asked what Russell told their paren

He gave me that look again. “What do they teach you at that school you go to? Of course she knows. We have a date.”

“A date? It’s three o’ clock in the afternoon. Besides, I’m along” (Snow,43).

Like snow, Russell shows great innocence. Through his innocence he would not take a girl out on a date in mid afternoon and have a younger brother tag along. He would rather take her out to dinner and a movie, just him and his date.

Baxter introduces to his reader’s that Russell is very pure and the closet he has come to being with another girl is when he was in the second grade. Ben, Russell and Stephanie all sit up in the front of the car. Russell watches as his brother and Stephanie hold hands. Stephanie caught Russell and asks Russell is she would like to hold her other hand and he takes it. “I hadn’t held hands with anyone since second grade . . . hold it gave me an odd sensation, because it was a women’s hand . . .”(Snow, 44).

While Ben and Stephanie were whispering to each other, Russell felt a wave of an extreme “third-wheel” feeling. A feeling of jealousy a

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