The Yellow Wallpaper
Keturah Mazyck
Professor Dr. Robert Thompson
Introduction to Fiction
13 March, 2013 The story “The Intruder” by Andre Dubus was a captivating story in which a young boy by the name of Kenneth was trying to find his identity in life.
Thomas E. Kennedy found the story “The Intruder” by Andre Dubus to be one of the author’s simpler writings. The protagonist in the story was Kenneth.
Kenneth was a 13 year old boy, who was insecure. He fantasized of being a hero.
When Thomas Kennedy stated the story was a simpler writing, I disagreed because when someone was going through puberty there was nothing simple about that stage in life. Kenneth was at the tender age of 13, that’s when his body begun to go through physical changes. He was not familiar with the changes because they were not explained to him. Kenneth wondered if he would have broad shoulders like his dad. Also, his sister’s boyfriend Douglas was on the football team and that made him feel awkward because Kenneth was short and slim. During puberty stage in a boy’s life, he’s paying attention to his body structure, the hairs that are growing on his body and the bass in his voice.
Puberty also have a psychological invasion meaning the thoughts that have once possessed innocence had now entered into another dimension. For example,
Kenneth had become sexually aroused by a naked picture of a girl in a magazine.
Instead, Kenneth tried not to embrace the feeling that he felt when he looked at the picture. He immediately closed the magazine and begun to do push ups because he felt he was doing something wrong. Kenneth was being brought up in the Catholic religion and sexual excitement was dismissed. But if his father would had explained to him about those feelings, he’d probably would had not felt so convicted about human nature.
Thomas Kennedy made a statement in his critical article that I agreed with
”The intrusion is more complex than a simple
Professor Dr. Robert Thompson
Introduction to Fiction
13 March, 2013 The story “The Intruder” by Andre Dubus was a captivating story in which a young boy by the name of Kenneth was trying to find his identity in life.
Thomas E. Kennedy found the story “The Intruder” by Andre Dubus to be one of the author’s simpler writings. The protagonist in the story was Kenneth.
Kenneth was a 13 year old boy, who was insecure. He fantasized of being a hero.
When Thomas Kennedy stated the story was a simpler writing, I disagreed because when someone was going through puberty there was nothing simple about that stage in life. Kenneth was at the tender age of 13, that’s when his body begun to go through physical changes. He was not familiar with the changes because they were not explained to him. Kenneth wondered if he would have broad shoulders like his dad. Also, his sister’s boyfriend Douglas was on the football team and that made him feel awkward because Kenneth was short and slim. During puberty stage in a boy’s life, he’s paying attention to his body structure, the hairs that are growing on his body and the bass in his voice.
Puberty also have a psychological invasion meaning the thoughts that have once possessed innocence had now entered into another dimension. For example,
Kenneth had become sexually aroused by a naked picture of a girl in a magazine.
Instead, Kenneth tried not to embrace the feeling that he felt when he looked at the picture. He immediately closed the magazine and begun to do push ups because he felt he was doing something wrong. Kenneth was being brought up in the Catholic religion and sexual excitement was dismissed. But if his father would had explained to him about those feelings, he’d probably would had not felt so convicted about human nature.
Thomas Kennedy made a statement in his critical article that I agreed with
”The intrusion is more complex than a simple