American Literature
This Boys Life
In the beginning of the novel you find Toby and his mother on their way to Utah to start a new life mining uranium ore. On their way they have to stop while the car is overheated and they spot a large truck going over the guardrail and into a river gorge. They are on there way to Utah because Toby's mother wants to return to the type of lifestyle she had when she was younger and her father was a wealthy man before the stock market crash of 1929.
Toby has been told by his father to not change his name due to a family and religious tradition. Once Toby learns that the tradition is false he changes his name to be known as Jack after the author Jack London. He did this for the fact that if he got the name his father gave him out of his life he would remove any connections with his father. Jack makes some friends in the Mormon community and when he isn't around them he usually writes letters to his pen pal in Phoenix. He often writes what he......
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