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Characters - Children Have to Grow Up: "Careful he might hear you" by Sumner Lock Elliot
Title: Characters - Children Have to Grow Up: "Careful he might hear you" by Sumner Lock Elliot
Category: Literature / North American
Details: Words: 1167 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Characters - Children Have to Grow Up: "Careful he might hear you" by Sumner Lock Elliot
Sumner Lock Elliot's novel "Careful he might hear you" introduces to the reader part of the journey made by a six-year old boy named PS, on his way to adulthood. It illustrates also the notion that growing up is a multifaceted activity, requiring not only a physical maturation, but an emotional advancement as well. He suggests that people other than children need to grow up (as indeed they do). The adults most responsible for moulding …showed first 75 words of 1167 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1167 total…behaviour of the adults untilthat point. "That's all I have to say" concludes Vanessa, verbally bidding goodbye to her own inadequacies. As a result of this advancement of Vanessa's, PS is now aware that "there was really only him. Bill." He, at age seven, has come to a conclusion man adolescents and young adults have difficulty in reaching- and has been forced to do so alone because there had ben no-one capable of assisting him.
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