In the end I think the boy realizes he isn't mature or old enough to face the real world out there all alone. Because he lives in another world with his lustful and desirable poems for himself, he shuts himself off from the reality of the world around him. He believed he could handle it, but he couldn't.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Longing for Adulthood
This probably isn't the theme of this story, but what I took from Love and Obstacles was that this boy wants to grow up way too fast. He is only seventeen and he is at that age where teenagers are done being kids and they want to be adults. He is seen getting drunk and wanting to be very sexually active. The narrator believes that his ticket to adulthood is by losing his virginity to the first woman that is willing to have sex with him which is why the contraceptive pill is such a prominent part of the story. This boy is on a mission to help his family, but the purpose of him wanting to go is the adventure of independence, free from his family. However, he realizes that independence and adulthood isn't all it's cracked up to be. He gets beat up for trying to pursue a woman who rejects him, he is called a child by the men that kidnap him for some time, and he has to worry about the receptionist not thinking he's old enough to be at the hotel by himself.
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