Langston Hughes, the one who is mentioned above, recognizes the need for a journey when he said, “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” When the narrator said this, this is when he started to mature because he now knows that he really shouldn’t give up and that he could get where he wanted to go if he just believed in himself. …show more content…
He can now start to express himself in the story because he wanted to be honest with his teacher. The counterclaim to this opinion would be that some people will think that the narrator was still immature, but people that have the same opinion as me will think that he has matured over the course of the poem because really just wants to be