Becoming an adult
In his short story, "A&P", by John Updike, the main character Sammy has transformed into a man prepared to make the next step in his life, the adulthood. The young teenager is a clerk at a local grocery store who encounters some unusual customers that end up affecting his entire life. Moreover, the author uses imagery, conflict, and dynamic character to convey the transformation of a teenager into a man, setting his own rules and believes.
From the beginning, the narrator who is also the protagonist starts with descriptive imagery to help the audience understand how the adolescent mind is working. Sammy describes in great details the three girls that walk in the grocery store he is working at. The first one seems like "a chunky kid, with a good tan" wearing a plaid two-piece bathing suit. He surmises the suit is new because "the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale." Following her is a taller one with "sunburns right across......
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