A&P - John Updike

In John Updikes, A & P, the author introduces a y emergeh boy, Sammy, trying to figure out if thither is more for himself. He needinesss to change the way he does and haves things. A & P, is about initiation. Sammy goes from honor and ignorance, to maturity date and wisdom. Lacking the maturity to live with the worlds injustices, Sammy acted irrationally and lost everything, turn out maybe himself. A & P, represents a coming-of-age taradiddle for Sammy.\nEverything in this allegory happens over just a couple of minutes, but it alleviate shows a great make of maturity. The entire time that the sort out of girls is in the retentivity, you can see changes in Sammy. When they first passing game in all he notices is their physical features. As the story goes on, he starts to grow up. He notices the interactions of the girls, instead of just their physical features. He starts to notice that the girls ar not comparable the regulars that write out through the store daily, wit h the take away same routine. The girls are assorted and dont follow a roundabout routine. They seem to do what they want, when they want, and its no problem for them. He appreciates their bizarreness, and doesnt want to discourage it and doesnt like that other adults do. When the girls were confronted by the store passenger car, and talked to about their inappropriate appearance. Sammy felt up as if the manager was wrong, and savage for embarrassing the girls.\nWhen the manager makes his comment, Sammy doesnt discover as if he is proper or okay with how the manager treated them. Sammy starts to feel as if there is something out there that is better for him. Sammy wants to be unique, or just as unique as the girls that he finds bewitching are. The girls are different, and thats what Sammy seems to love and cling to about them. Sammy has made a decision that he doesnt want to be like his manager, or any of the adults who are sagaciousness the girls in that store, and he d ecidedly doesnt want to be close to them. \nSam...