Boy Meets World

for the conflict of fantasies and reality in the boy. Light that symbolizes hope, illusion fiction and similarly, darkness expresses pessimism, truth and realism in narrator’s dilemma. Unlike other stories, “Araby” does not use name for the characters instead a young “boy” for the main character and “Mangan’s sister” for the girl he has a crush on. The reason for this anonymity is that the author wants the reader to relate to the epiphany the boy faces in the story. We all have our moments of…

Who Are Hero’s? Gunfire rings out through the quiet community at dusk; bullets riddle the air, flying towards an innocent boy perched on his mother’s porch. As a result, the serene atmosphere the boy enjoyed had been interrupted by discomfort as a bullet pierced his meager body. Of course, this young man needs some heroes, not ones who flutter through the sky, or ones with super strength, but everyday heroes who help us each day. His heroes show up. His mother rushes to the side of her precious…

J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, is generally discerned as the story of a sixteen year old boy, known as Holden Caulfield, who struggles to find peace after his brother’s death. Holden wanders aimlessly around New York in the winter for two days and attempts to save children from falling into adulthood and becoming what he calls, phonies. He, generally, will settle until genuine feelings are shown, which leads to his running away. Salinger captures the significance of Holden’s late…

The sometimes hopeless and doubtful period of Dick’s youth ends immediately after he meets Frank, who helped nurture his transition further into adulthood (Alger 31). Frank is the first person to speak to Dick as though he could have a bright future. He suggests there is “hope for you, Dick, if you try” (Alger 31). He is Dick’s inspiration to embrace the transition into adulthood rather than hopelessly accept his fate as a boot-black “vagabone”. Frank demystifies some of what Dick’s future could…

experience with these situations have been called into question his character at times. None more significant, than his encounter with the Sunny, the prostitute. At one point in the book, Holden returns from the hotel in which he was staying. He meets this elevator boy/pimp Maurice who offers the young man ‘company’ for the night. Holden understands that prostitution is wrong and states it forthright in the book, however his impulsive decision making and loneliness causes him to act out rashly…

and eventually through a series of obstacles she is able to succeed and meets a prince along the way, gets married and lives happily ever after. Just supposed an African American girl sees the movie, she would immediately associate herself with the princess and believe that if she works hard her dreams could come true and most likely she too could get married to a prince and live happily ever after. On the other hand, a little boy that watched that same movie wouldn’t typically associate himself…

“I Didn't have nothing to give him except these things, that told him who I was, and what he come from. If you know your pappy did something you know you can do something to.” Greg a young boy gets upset with his father and sneaks out of the house and goes into a abandoned building to take shelter from the rain, and wanders around the building thinking, when he suddenly hears a voice threatening him. When the old man comes out from where he was hiding, Greg notices he has no weapon and…

you must inherit. What he was hoping when he wrote the book was to inspire anyone who read it to follow these different types of mindsets so that you as an individual could become the person you were meant to be all along, all the while making the world a better place with your gifts and…

Bless me ultima is a novel with a foundation of family religion and tradition. Antonio is a young boy who had the task to decide who he wanted to be in life and what he wanted to do in the future. As a young child he lived up to what his parents wanted, but he never thought about what he really wanted to strive for until he met Ultima. She shaped him to be a brave and descisive fellow. He was destined to be a great man with a great future awaiting his arrival. Througout his years he experienced…

The snaps and cracks of bone dry branches echo through the twisted wood as the young boy attempted to escape from his pursuer. The child darted between the gnarled oaks and continued to sprint for his life. Each of his useless weapons had been abandoned long before this moment, however the boy longed for the slight protecting his father’s dull sword would offer him. The labored breaths of the exhausted child grew louder as the unseen beast drew nearer. He continued to sprint until, in the…