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Summary Of At Seventeen By Sheila Morehead

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At Seventeen Short Response In the short story “At Seventeen” by Sheila Morehead, symbolism, conflict and characterisation has been used to construct the character “youth” as a complicated and independent surfer. Internal and external conflict has been utilised by Sheila to portray the youth as complicated and independent. Through out the story the youth has had to overcome many obstacles such as communicating and letting people into his own world. This shows the reader that he is very complicated and not a stereotypical teenage boy. The biggest obstacle that the youth has to overcome is that of the raging ocean. This reinforces the authors point that the youth's an independent surfer because he goes out surfing in extremely dangerous conditions

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