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chubhunter [2.5K]
3 years ago
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Being a teenager can be a real challenge. A million different people have a million different expectations from you. Your mother

wants you to play soccer, while your brother wants you to take up football. I have definitely felt the weight of these expectations. When I was 13 years old, my mother signed me up for the school track team. "I'm not good at running," I would whine every time she pushed me to try. I could barely run a mile without getting all tired and exhausted. I did not have the body of an athlete. I was this little, skinny kid with the stamina of an old man. I hated it.
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yulyashka [42]3 years ago
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y'all good? I'm not sure if this was a question or what but if it is, please specify what you need to be answered. otherwise, you can always dm me if you wanna talk. idk why you'd post something like this here if you didn't want it proofread or what, but I'm not in the place to judge. feel free to ask whatever it is you want, I'm always here to help :)

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Elias, Robert H. “James Thurber: The Primitive, the Innocent, and the Individual.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 5. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. 431–32. Print.

Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978. Print.

Hasley, Louis. “James Thurber: Artist in Humor.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 11. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. 532–34. Print.

Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1981. Print.

Lindner, Carl M. “Thurber’s Walter Mitty—The Underground American Hero.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 5. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. 440–41. Print.

Rosenblatt, Louise M. Literature as Exploration. New York: MLA, 1976. Print.

Thurber, James. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading. Ed. William Vesterman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1993. 286–89. Print.

Tompkins, Jane P. “An Introduction to Reader-Response Criticism.” Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Ed. Jane P. Tompkins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980. ix-xxvi. Print.

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