Analysis Of Killen's Short Story 'My Other Head Is Named Ted'

In Killen’s short story “My Other Head Is Named Ted”, the author talks about two people, well one person two heads. The story starts the narrator introducing us to himself and his other head, Ted. The narrator talks about how it is a problem that he has another head in which he is seeking removal of, “The doctor says that this is a fixable situation.” The narrator absolutely hates having another head, he bought Ted and iPod so when the two attend doctor appointments, Ted does not hear about the plan to remove his head from the equation. The narrator goes on talking about the positives and negatives about having another head, well mostly the negatives. The doctor shares with the narrator that he thinks the narrator should think more about this …show more content…
Killen states in the short story, “Ted wants his party at Chuck E. Cheese. He doesn’t even ask what the party is for. Since it is a going away party, I allow it.” This is just one of few events in the story that show how childish Ted really is, the narrator cannot handle the child that Ted is. The narrator also says, “I let Ted play in the ball pit for almost an hour. I let him waste money on video games and air hockey……At the end of the night Ted takes all the tickets he’s collected and spends them on a stapler. It’s a tiny stapler that wouldn’t hold three sheets of paper together. I try to tell him that we already have a stapler, one that, in addition to being functional, probably cost less than what we spent in order to win this one.” The narrator seems to be rather irritated or annoyed with Ted and his beings, the narrator cannot wait to be his own person again. The childish acting of Ted relates to young adults because there is a time that they will need to mature as they get older. Ted acts like he is a 12-year-old boy who loves to eat junk food and stay up late watching TV yes, a majority of people enjoy a day to relax and watch TV and eat junk food. Let’s say that Ted was 12 years old and going to be 13 in a few weeks, Ted is going to be 13 years old and in middle school, the teachers will not like it if Ted is talking and joking around in class. This relates to young adults because there is a time to grow up, no matter what their friends are doing young adults need to mature at the correct time so that people are not as annoyed with them like the narrator is with Ted. If someone wants to grow as a person they are going to have to leave a few things behind, they cannot be a kid