The Role Of Buzz In Literature

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I think in the story eyes and teeth there’s a couple places that you can see where buzz and his cousin begin to show signs of moving from adolescent to young adulthood like when his cousin acknowledges that summer that they didn’t fuss and wrestles much as they used to that, buzz was beginning to see her more as a young woman. When buzz is under the table and here’s how his mother feels about him and his skin tone I think it forces him to deal with the reality that if his mother views in this way how with the rest the world see me and it forces them to grow up a lot in that moment. As far as what story tells us about society I think it shows that society as a whole tends to judge people by their looks. But I really like the ending of the story

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