Shelby Raebeck, the author of “Trapped”, explores many themes in his story, one of them being the loss of a friendship. This story shows how disagreements can cause you to lose the people who you are close to, such as friends, and that can cause you to feel empty and wanting to correct your past mistakes to get back the people you lost. In Raebeck’s work, we see two high schoolers, Lance, the black character, and Ricky, the white character, who also happens to be the narrator. These two become friends through basketball, but their friendship changes very quickly when a police officer pulls…