Reflections: Review of Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Description
Vince Vawters Paperboy is a young adult fiction targeting readers aged ten years and above. It is the authors first and only novel, published in 2013. Paperboy is a 1959 film set in Memphis, Tennessee, and follows the story of Victor, an eleven-year-old boy nicknamed Little Man, whose world is turned upside down when he takes up a friends paper route. Paperboys autobiographical element, according to Vawter, makes it nearly a memoir. Almost all of the characters in the book were based on real-life personalities from Vawters youth, and the author, like his protagonist, struggled with a speech impediment and worked a paper route for a month.
Analysis
In this narration, Victor is telling the truth as he cant tell the story anywhere else because Mam has made him vow to keep the contents of his confrontation with Ara T a secret. Because Victor wants the reader to understand what hes going through, the tone of Paperboy is brutally honestand by delivering his narrative in such a plain, realistic manner, he comes across as a trustworthy narrator. He keeps nothing hidden from the reader... or from himself.
Victor recounts events in proper chronological order, with numerous details and observations. When he talks about how he perceives Mrs. Worthington, for example, he also mentions that he senses she isnt fully happy:
Mrs. Worthington didnt have to say much for me to tell what kind of day she was having. I had already seen her empty eyes. Her happy eyes. Her whiskey...
…about his unknown parent. Adult characters consume booze and cigarettes; one is an alcoholic, while the other chews tobacco.This narrative has multiple layers of charm. Younger, less experienced readers may experience a rising awareness of Little Man as he gradually recognizes the injustices of his environment; older readers, on the other hand, may be quicker to notice the bias lurking in the background, out of Little Mans line of vision. Hed never considered the contrast between his white familys wealthy lifestyle and the colored junkmen who push their carts around, or even his beloved Mam, whom he trusts more than his mother. Although Paperboy is intended for readers aged ten and older, I believe it will appeal to many adult readers looking for a recall of the moment when one…
Work cited
Vawter, Vince. Paperboy. Yearling, 2013.
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