anchor: During one phase of the French Revolution, a guillotine shortened many lives here, though the fact is deliberately forgotten by the boys eyeing the girls pretending to ignore the boys.
positive: The thought of the guillotine shortening lives during the French Revolution was overshadowed though the simplicity of boys eyeing girls.
negative: Boys eyeing girls and the girls ignoring the boys were thoughts overshadowed by just how many lives were ended by the guillotine in the French Revolution.