William Dodge's Thirteen

I can identify with Bill, the speaker in William Dodge’s short story “Thirteen.” He is a thirteen year old boy and I once was too. In the story Bill talks about what it’s like to be a thirteen year old. At first he simply states, “Thirteen is one of the nicest ages I have ever been.” Bill recounted a story of why he didn’t like his younger ages. One day when he was eleven years old he went to the cinema with his mother. When she attempted to purchase the half price childs ticket the woman who worked at the ticket booth did not believe that Bill was really eleven. It seemed to me that Bill was embarrassed as he said, “I wanted to drop dead.” He is happy to be thirteen because now he buys his own tickets. I can easily relate to this because when