Departure Coming Of Age Story

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The story “Departure” is a coming of age story, depicting what it is like for a boy to leave behind his family, friends, and old life in order to move forward and fulfill his dreams, regardless of how hard it may be for him. Before this boy’s departure at the train station, many of the townsfolk, whom the boy had grown so close to over the course of his life, met him at the station to wish him good luck. The narrator relates these events at the train station to provide a feeling of hopelessness or discomfort, as one ponders over the potential future of this boy who has left home. “Up the Coolly” is a story that depicts what it is like for a man to return home, after many years of living an urban lifestyle that he abandoned long before. The

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