Inevitable Growth
“Boys” by Rick Moody, reveals the evergoing growth between two twin boy’s lives. The unnamed start off as inseparable, seeing the world through a narrow mindset. As the twins reach their adult years however, influences change their perspectives in their life, distinguishing themselves from each other. Life’s natural drive to move fast, the separation of the twins to mature, and a chance for change each time entering a threshold show that to mature to find self identity, one must abandon the comfort of home. Time can never stop for a person, which is why boys’ life events passes by too fast for contentment. The boys’ portrayal in one paragraph is found with quick, short sentences. This rushed style symbolizes how fast the …show more content…
Shown in the repetitive style of using the same short sentence “boys enter the house” in every sentence, can be inferencing the boys’ lives outside of their home. The entering through the door symbolizes the return home after entering the abyss of the unknown world through a journey. Each time the boys come back through the threshold, they return as a slightly altered version of themselves. The style of using a recurrent sentence exemplifies the change of being nearly identical children, to progression of branching journeys, maturing into their own person. For example, one boy misses his past, walking through the door sporting long hair and a tie-dye shirt, referencing a peaceful outside influence.The twin seems to mature by spending time with sophisticated, and intelligent minds from the outside world. On the other hand, the other boy occasionally enters with his head half shaven, writing home refusing to recollect the past, influenced by a faster pace of maturity. At the end, after the death of their father, they leave the house one last time stating, “Boys, no longer boys, exit” (pg.354). During the beginning of the story, the boys looked up to their father. The passing symbolizes the loss of dependency from the family, finally detached from their childhood, becoming men to fully start their own
“Boys” by Rick Moody, reveals the evergoing growth between two twin boy’s lives. The unnamed start off as inseparable, seeing the world through a narrow mindset. As the twins reach their adult years however, influences change their perspectives in their life, distinguishing themselves from each other. Life’s natural drive to move fast, the separation of the twins to mature, and a chance for change each time entering a threshold show that to mature to find self identity, one must abandon the comfort of home. Time can never stop for a person, which is why boys’ life events passes by too fast for contentment. The boys’ portrayal in one paragraph is found with quick, short sentences. This rushed style symbolizes how fast the …show more content…
Shown in the repetitive style of using the same short sentence “boys enter the house” in every sentence, can be inferencing the boys’ lives outside of their home. The entering through the door symbolizes the return home after entering the abyss of the unknown world through a journey. Each time the boys come back through the threshold, they return as a slightly altered version of themselves. The style of using a recurrent sentence exemplifies the change of being nearly identical children, to progression of branching journeys, maturing into their own person. For example, one boy misses his past, walking through the door sporting long hair and a tie-dye shirt, referencing a peaceful outside influence.The twin seems to mature by spending time with sophisticated, and intelligent minds from the outside world. On the other hand, the other boy occasionally enters with his head half shaven, writing home refusing to recollect the past, influenced by a faster pace of maturity. At the end, after the death of their father, they leave the house one last time stating, “Boys, no longer boys, exit” (pg.354). During the beginning of the story, the boys looked up to their father. The passing symbolizes the loss of dependency from the family, finally detached from their childhood, becoming men to fully start their own