My Greastest Ambition

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e short story ‘My Greatest Ambition’ by Morris Lurie is about Morris Lurie when he was 13 years old and wanted to become a comic-strip artist. After finishing his first comic-stip he sends it to ‘Boy Magazine’ who wants to buy and print it. The writer describes the excitement and anxiety of the young boy very well. His thoughts and feelings are displayed in a very lively and detailed way. The boy get’s lost in his thoughts or goes off topic. This makes the situation seem very realistic. I remember writing ‘ambulate’ and saying it was a special way of walking. Do I digress?. It seems nearly like he wrote down his exact thoughts which makes it very easy for the reader to understand his feelings and actions. Another way in which Morris Lurie expresses how nervous and exited the teenager is, is how he occasionally writes very long sentences which reflect his feelings very well. For some reason that caught me unawares and I flashed her a blinding smile and kept standing there, wondering what was going to happen next, and then (...) except for looking at my watch ten times in the next thirty seconds. This makes the main character seem like a very likeable, empathetic and nice person. This short story shows how important age in the business world is. The boys’s father raised some questions in me. He is picking on his son all the time instead of encouraging or even helping his son. I think he should take his son more
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