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 boys’ lives are changing through their life. All events happening in the same fluid motion displays the continuing motion of the boys’ lives. Even when dealing with loss, the story picks up a new topic in a few sentences. “Boys enter the house, embarrassed, silent, anguished…” (pg.352), an opposite mood compared to the next scene, entering the house with warm clasped hands, inevitably showing maturity through one’s experiences. When reading the story, it became difficult to follow the story. With one turn of the head, the reader can easily misplace where they were at in the story. This further exemplifies the fact the boys’ lives are moving at a rushed pace, and no matter what, they have to keep on moving forward though their maturity. As boys get older, they naturally slip away from each other, looking back at their juvenile past. In the beginning, the boys are born identical, with the same mindset and influences. “... and with them the idea of boys (ideas leaden,reductive, inflexible” (pg.350) displays the situational irony of how the twins have one pathway of knowledge when born, the immature mind of a newborn boy, clueless of the outside world. At this time, they still share the same simple minded passions and desires. Both 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 boys’ lives are changing through their life. All events happening in the same fluid motion displays the continuing motion of the boys’ lives. Even when dealing with loss, the story picks up a new topic in a few sentences. “Boys enter the house, embarrassed, silent, anguished…” (pg.352), an opposite mood compared to the next scene, entering the house with warm clasped hands, inevitably showing maturity through one’s experiences. When reading the story, it became difficult to follow the story. With one turn of the head, the reader can easily misplace where they were at in the story. This further exemplifies the fact the boys’ lives are moving at a rushed pace, and no matter what, they have to keep on moving forward though their maturity. As boys get older, they naturally slip away from each other, looking back at their juvenile past. In the beginning, the boys are born identical, with the same mindset and influences. “... and with them the idea of boys (ideas leaden,reductive, inflexible” (pg.350) displays the situational irony of how the twins have one pathway of knowledge when born, the immature mind of a newborn boy, clueless of the outside world. At this time, they still share the same simple minded passions and desires. Both 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