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Boy's Life Analysis

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When most children grow up, the world revolves around them. Boy’s life, written by Robert McCammon shows a perspective of another boy, in another town, another time period, about his story of growing up. They only think about their hometown and what happens, when you grow up you know nothing of terrorist groups or presidential elections, it is all about you and your family. Boy’s life gives the readers a story to think about differentiating from this novel and their childhood. This develops on the reader with some disturbing scenes, however this book is obligated to stay in the curriculum because of the lessons that it educates the readers. This brings the book to be classified as a very sturdy novel, and it will be treasured from the way …show more content…

One way that this lesson is portrayed in the novel would be on page 464, when cory gets on a train with Princey, Ahmet and Franklin. They ride the train into the city, and as they are walking through the alleyways various crimes are witnessed. At this point, Princey states “Keep going cory, don’t stop, don’t stop”(464). This quote can be represented as that Cory is going through the same thing that most readers will be. Cory realizes that his home town is just a little part of a big world. He is coming out of the phase that everything is about him and his hometown when he witnesses these crimes. It makes both the reader and Cory perceive that their home towns, are just one nice place surrounded by bad actions. In the novel there are more instances of this idea. The setting of this book is a small town in the 1960’s, which can play a huge factor in the crimes that are engaged. Out of the various crimes committed each day, a huge number of them would be the KKK. During that time period they were very relevant, and if something bad were to happen, they would be blamed. On page 187 McCammon states “and sometime after midnight, a cross was set afire in front of the lady 's house”(187). The KKK in the setting of this book is very relevant, during this time period they were

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