"On the Show"

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The paper describes the story "On the Show" by Wells Tower as a funny, compelling and ultimately devastatingly relatable narrative of being forced to leave one's childhood behind. The paper describes the context of the story and conveys the narrator's stark realization that childhood is a phase which ends abruptly, without warning and with the promise of being forever banished only to memory.

From the Paper:

"A short story published in the May 2007 issue of the Harper Collins literary magazine offers readers a funny, compelling and ultimately, devastatingly relatable narrative of being forced to leave one's childhood behind. Author Wells Tower captures the moment at which our young narrator is forced from the imperfect but comfortable confines of his family, home and youth and made to find his own way in the world. In just the set of three days which are captured by On the Show, the character enters and suffers a world where the wonderment of childhood and the harshness of manhood commingle freely. The set of experiences is beguiling and determinant for the young man, whom we find at first passively accepting of the demand to surrender his childhood and, ultimately, desperate to return to the womblike borders of his youth."

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