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Reflections: Review of Paperboy by Vince VawterDescriptionVince Vawter’s Paperboy is a young adult fiction targeting readers aged ten years and above. It is the author’s 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 friend’s paper route. Paperboy’s 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 Vawter’s youth, and the author, like his protagonist, struggled with a speech impediment and worked a paper route for a month.AnalysisIn this narration, Victor is telling the truth as he can’t 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 he’s going through, the tone of Paperboy is brutally honest—and 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 isn’t fully happy:Mrs. Worthington didn’t have to say much for me to tell what kind of day she was having.

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…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 Man’s line of vision. He’d never considered the contrast between his white family’s 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 begins to perceive the world through….....

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