THIS IS THE THIRD of a 3-part analysis of This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff. In this part, we take a look at the narrative structure to better understand how the choice of structure helps or hinders the narrative. Whenever I set out to examine the structure of a piece […]
HOW WORD CHOICE AFFECTS PACE, TONE, AND VOICE – This Boy’s Life This is the second post in which we examine *This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff, from a writer’s point of view. How does Tobias Wolff manage to draw us into his story? How does he keep us turning […]
FIRST IMPRESSIONS – *This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff This Boy’s Life, published in 2007, is already a classic among coming-of-age memoirs. It begins with Toby, age fourteen, and his mother as they run West to hide from an abusive relationship and make their fortune prospecting for uranium. “She was going […]
