Extraordinary Little Tough Analysis

Joyce Meyer once said, “We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges”. The message behind this quote is evident throughout the short story “Extraordinary Little Cough”. The group of boys that decide that they are going to go on a camping trip and find themselves going through new experiences the entire time. “Extraordinary Little Cough” shows the journey of a group of friends as the set out on their first journey all alone. Throughout the short story, “Extraordinary Little Cough”, the group of friends that set out on the camping trip show growth in different situations and in a variety of different way. Though it may not always be easy, the group of friends show an obvious growth throughout their camping trip. One way that the characters grow is through courage. All of the characters leave home to go camping. Before they leave to go camping, the narrator describes the situation; he says, “We were going to camp for a fortnight in Rhossili, in a field above the sweeping five mile beach” (165). Two of the guys in the group had been camping there before, but overall it was …show more content…
From the courage that the characters show and by trying to prove themselves, they unintentionally grow because of the decisions that they have made. The group of friends did not set out on this camping trip with the intention to grow as people. The different situations that the boys found themselves in that they were trying to prove themselves actually led them to improving themselves. The group of friends found themselves in a variety of different situations, but came out of them for the better. The group did not grow because they situations they found themselves in were easy, but they grew because they faced challenges. The overcoming of the challenges is what allowed the different boys in the group to