Maturity
Amy Tans- Two Kinds
John Updikes- A&P
Maturity / Maturation.
Throughout life, humanity craves the chance to become all "grown up." They are constantly antisipating the opportunity to participate in the activities those of age are able to do. However, what many do not realize is being grown up does indeed give you all of those opportunities to fulfill, but it also takes away something very important, and that is your childhood. Amy Tan's Two Kinds and John Up Dikes A&P, portray both a missing childhood and, sense of adulthood.
John Updikes A&P, takes place in New England at a small town grocery store, called the A&P. Sammy, the narrator of the story is a young boy, who works as a cashier at the grocery store. He soon finds himself completely drawn to a group of girls who enter the store. Just in from the beach of pool, sammy suggests, due to the fact they are still in their bathing suits. Going about their errands the young girls are being starred at by other costumers, while sammy takes in all of the reactions. "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle (Updike 1344)" is how Sammy had described the costumers. The girls on the other hand, stand out like no other, "the girls were walking against the usual traffic ( not that we have one way signs or anything )" (Updike 1344).
They are like no other, and thats the trait that seems to really grab sammy's attention. He watches them in such detail, he's even able to point out the queen of the group. As the girls proceed to checkout, sammy's manager does not agree with the girl choice of clothing at all, as he approaches them and says " "girls this is not the beach" "( Updike 1345). Queenie then replies " "my mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks" " (Updike 1345). Sammy can now picture it, these girls are from a much higher class where their families get together and eat herring snacks with fancy drinks. In hope that the girls will notice, Sammy abruptly quits his job. He began to have a
John Updikes- A&P
Maturity / Maturation.
Throughout life, humanity craves the chance to become all "grown up." They are constantly antisipating the opportunity to participate in the activities those of age are able to do. However, what many do not realize is being grown up does indeed give you all of those opportunities to fulfill, but it also takes away something very important, and that is your childhood. Amy Tan's Two Kinds and John Up Dikes A&P, portray both a missing childhood and, sense of adulthood.
John Updikes A&P, takes place in New England at a small town grocery store, called the A&P. Sammy, the narrator of the story is a young boy, who works as a cashier at the grocery store. He soon finds himself completely drawn to a group of girls who enter the store. Just in from the beach of pool, sammy suggests, due to the fact they are still in their bathing suits. Going about their errands the young girls are being starred at by other costumers, while sammy takes in all of the reactions. "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle (Updike 1344)" is how Sammy had described the costumers. The girls on the other hand, stand out like no other, "the girls were walking against the usual traffic ( not that we have one way signs or anything )" (Updike 1344).
They are like no other, and thats the trait that seems to really grab sammy's attention. He watches them in such detail, he's even able to point out the queen of the group. As the girls proceed to checkout, sammy's manager does not agree with the girl choice of clothing at all, as he approaches them and says " "girls this is not the beach" "( Updike 1345). Queenie then replies " "my mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks" " (Updike 1345). Sammy can now picture it, these girls are from a much higher class where their families get together and eat herring snacks with fancy drinks. In hope that the girls will notice, Sammy abruptly quits his job. He began to have a