In it, he writes about a boy who falls deeply in love with his best friend's sister, who through the story, doesn't seem to notice him or care about him. ... He thinks about Mangan's sister and visualizes her image everywhere he goes. ... When the uncle forgets that the boy wants to go to the bazaar, he does not sound like he cares about what the boy wants to do, but yet, he also is perceived to be very humble about these things. He exemplifies that he does not really care about what the boy wants when the boy tries to tell his uncle that he wants to go to the bazaar. ... By...

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"Araby," a short story written by James Joyce, is about the life of a sexually frustrated boy and his obsession with a young girl. ... " (pg. 87) This sentence relates to the boy's feelings about the girl, that because he was "filled with tears," he never could have seen clearly what he actually thought about the girl. ... The boy also describes how his "boy was like a harp" and explains how "her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.... The author explains how the boy is trying to fight against his sexuality but the way he doe...

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A god story about that you shall not always beleive in what you see. It is about a boys lors of an hero, and of his rolemodel. ... This is an understandable thing when you are about to meet your idol. ... The boy organizes himself in a way after him. ... This short story constructs a critical and reasonable question about heroism and life in general in a great way, which makes this an excellent short story. ...

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The boy is frightened, but the father tells the boy he shouldn't be. ... Right after the father told the boy he shouldn't be frightened, the boy realizes his father cannot always protect him. ... It was queer that we didn't feel the same about it. ... The boy learns that he must be in charge of his own safety and security in the world. " It was all the fear which would come to me, all the unknown; all that Daddy didn't know about, and couldn't save me from. ... I believe that children start to learn about conflict when they start to interact with other people, like the...

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The Road to Adulthood The usual thoughts of people who are in their mid-teens are far from the truth about maturity. ... Adulthood involves thinking ahead about possible consequences and not necessarily doing what sounds fun, but what is in the best interest of others. ... The boy sang. ... Something caught the boy's attention. ... He is beginning to realize the truth about everything that he has imagined. ...

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The priest is a kind of model to the boy, therefore he imitates him. ... The boy's uncle is another minor character who influences the boy's character. From the story we can see that the boy has no parents. ... In the part where his uncle forget's about the boy's plan to go to the bazaar, though reminded in the morning, we can see clearly the indifferentness of the uncle towards the boy. By seeing how the uncle treats the boy, it is pretty obvious why the boy turned out to be so isolated, lonely, and dull. ...

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Here he is a young, innocent boy who has a crush on a girl. ... " (Joyce) shows that he does not even care anymore about the bazaar and getting the gift for Mangan's sister. ... After the Boy's epiphany, he changes from an innocent boy to a young adolescent dealing with the realities of life. ... He then tells the reader about his interest in Mangan's sister. ... The boy starts out with admiring the girl from afar, just as any young innocent boy would. ...

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White's essay " Once More to the Lake," is about a father and son trip to a lake. ... White allows the reader to believe that this essay is about the trip and trip only, but the story is about a father struggling to find himself. ... The times he had shared with his father as a boy and now he was sharing them with his boy. ... It seems that the little boy does not appreciate the lake as much as the father did as little boy. ... Toward the end of the story White writes about a rain storm. ...

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It is a story about self-deception - a young boy's realization that he has misled himself into thinking his love was pure and real, when in fact it was the opposite. ... A good part of the story deals with the boy's infatuation with Mangan's sister. ... The boy is extraordinary lovesick for a girl he knows so little about. ... Meyer 2 The boy's self-deception is also seen in the portrayal he has of the girl. ... At the end of the story the boy awakes to the reality of the world around him. ...

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Barn Burning Barn Burning is a short story by William Faulkner about a young boy named "Sarty" who is the son of sharecroppers in the Old South, and his feelings and emotions concerning his father. ... The father then orders the boy get the oil that was used for the wagon, as well. The boy knows what the father is about to do, and the family attempts to stop the boy from running and telling the owner of the land what his father is about to do. The family tries to hold the boy down, but he manages to escape. ... He then goes to the barn where the father is about to set it on fire and shoots ...

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This condition leaves their son constantly having to decipher, through codes and patterns, what these objects are saying about him. ... "Unfledged" refers to the boy's youth and inexperience in life. ... The train represents the boy and the "current between two stations" represents the boy's connection with himself and that current world. ... This card obviously speaks the loudest and refers to the boy's death. ... Nabokov disguised many different hints that make the reader really have to think about the outcome of the story. ...

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He does not have custody of the boy so he isn't burdened with the role of disciplinarian. So when receiving time to spend with his son he is able to have fun and not worry about the effects of his teachings. The boy who is our narrator throughout the story becomes Wolff's opposition to the father character. Right through the story the boy demonstrates qualities of restraint and level headedness. ... The tension between the boy and his father creates a bond and a relationship that hold mutual exception. ...

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He does not have custody of the boy so he isn't burdened with the role of disciplinarian. So when receiving time to spend with his son he is able to have fun and not worry about the effects of his teachings. The boy who is our narrator throughout the story becomes Wolff's opposition to the father character. Right through the story the boy demonstrates qualities of restraint and level headedness. ... The tension between the boy and his father creates a bond and a relationship that hold mutual exception. ...

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Paul learns about mortgages, and In a loveless family. ... "War" is remarkable for its insights into both the thoughts and linguistic expression of a twelve-year-old boy who is looking back on events that happened when he was ten years old, specifically to his discovery that his father was going to war. As students explore the boy's reaction to this devastating news - a reaction that escalates into another kind of "war" between father and son - they are able to appreciate Findley's use of shifting and maturing perspective (not unlike Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill") as the boy be...

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It is about the meeting between a son named Charlie and his father. ... The boy travels alone and meets his father in New York before he continues his journey. ... The boy is in a young age and mostly boys´ looks up to their father and Charlie does that too. ... Besides this you do not get any knowledge about the mother. ... His behavior is rude and he does not care about his own son. ...

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When it comes to comes to themes about stories, a common theme known as explicit and implied goals seem to overtake most themes due to how simple of the idea is. ... For example a basic scenario can be a boy asking a girl out to prom. Most people would think he chased after her because he liked her but in depth of the story might show that the boy only wanted to ask her out so he would have an excuse to say no to creepy girl who has a monster crush on the boy. ... The story of A&P seems like a typical short story about a boy working at a super market when he judges people walking in and out. ....

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As society develops and grows technologically, Man is faced with new questions about life and humanity. ... He spent all afternoon trying to write a letter to express how he felt about her and how he loved her. David is also very insecure about himself. ... Like a little boy, he goes through a myriad of emotions in the short story. ... David was created and developed to closely resemble a human boy. ...

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Connie and the unnamed boy in Araby both find themselves being attracted members of the opposite sex, and find a way to deal with the consequences of their endeavors. With Connie the innocence lost is her shattered reality, with the boy in Araby it is his disillusionment which ends up shattered. ... Without it, one is left with a delusional, warped, naive point of view about the world in which he or she is a member. ... " This can be seen as the boy's realization of actual reality, and his confrontation with it. ... Connie and the young boy in Araby were eager to explore the feeli...

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In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. ... Sammy is a 19-year-old boy conveying a cocky but loveable male attitude. ... He describes her as being " One of these cash-register-watchers, a witch of about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up," sarcastically conveying his chauvinistic attitude toward women. We learn about Sammy's station in life through the setting of the story. ... He has changed from a young, immature 19-year-old boy into a ...

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The story "Reunion", by John Cheever, is about a boy who has a chance to reunite with his father during his hour and a half layover in New York and become reacquainted with his absentee father since his parents divorce three years ago. The boy, Charlie, is very excited about seeing him, but his visit wasn't anything like he expected. ... Charlie's father was very adamant about Charlie drinking with him. ...

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"How about rounding us up some firewood, Mac?" ... Andy reacts more like a little boy, because she didn't want to see that part of a woman's physique. ... Before the doe was spotted by Andy, Charlie heckled her, whether she was a boy or girl. ... A boy or girl?" ...

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After reading this essay I started to think about how sex is viewed and portrayed in our society, and how the views on it change when it deals with a male or a female. ... It touches on a subject that we all want to know more about, but at the same time want to hear less of; sex can be dangerous. ... In the story, the narrator explains "The more girls a boy has, the better. ... For a girl, with each boy it's as though a petal gets plucked each time." ...

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In his writings, Updike liked to write about normal people struggling with realizations of the world around them. Pigeon Feathers involves a young boy, David, moving from the city to a country farm with his family. David is a curious boy who begins to question life and death, and reads H.G. ... David confronts the reverend and asks him about heaven and soul. ...

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The main character, Mikey is a 13 year-old boy who, though unaware of it himself, is struggling with the transformation from child to teenager. ... Cecil plays his right-hand man and is a boy of a more daring and enterprising nature. Contrary to the last member Joey, who is described as the little fat boy with a great deal of perplexity and insecurity. ... He and his friends start wondering about the girls. What are they doing and what are they talking about? ...

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The short story First Confession is about a problem, which is very relevant to be occupied with in our contemporary society. ... The main person in the short story is the young boy Jackie, who is 7 or 8 years old. ... The priest takes pity on the terrified boy, and listens understanding to Jackie's first confession. ...

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