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Life After High School Eassay

High school, a stepping stone, a coming of age, a time of change, a time of growing and planning, a time of living and enjoying, a beginning for some and an end or transition for others. Joyce Carol Oates Life after High School takes us to a time in the late 1950s to South Lebanon High School and shows us the lives of three people at a time of self-discovery. Zachary Graff, Barbara "Sunny" Burhman and Tobias Shank were three friends and classmates who held secrets and truths between them which no one else in the school or town would discover.

Zachary Graff (a round character) was, until about the ninth grade, just an unrecognizable nerdy looking person. He was six and a half feet tall, 203 pounds with an IQ of 160. Upon graduation, his parents had wanted him to attend Muhlenberg College, a church-affiliated school, but Zachary, who would have been the valedictorian, wanted to go wherever Sunny would go. His frame was large and he would move clumsily down the halls of the high school with a gaze on the horizon as if not noticing anyone. Zachary had an eye problem, myopia or nearsightedness, which caused him to have to wear corrective glasses. His glasses were "chunky black plastic frames", which he constantly kept pushing up on


Tobias had been Zachary's best friend; in fact, his only friend, since the seventh grade. Tobias, "a self-professed agnostic since the age of fourteen", was also an intelligent person and often him and Zachary, who according to Tobias "was afraid of hell (586)" would get on each other's nerves because of their intellects and discussions.

his nose for fear they were falling. He was not unpopular in school as much as he was "feared, thus disliked (573)." The boys in Zachary's school envied him for his "plum-colored 1956 Plymouth" that his family could afford to buy. They felt "it seemed to them distinctly unfair that Zachary, of all people, had his own car, when so few of them, who loved cars, did." This car was Zachary's last choice as his final place to be in South Lebanon. Zachary's father was the "town's preeminent physician", so his family had a high standing in this little town with a population of 3,800. Everyone knew everyone else. Zachary, a baptized Lutheran, and his parents were members of the First Lutheran Church where they never failed to attend Sunday services. Zachary listened in church with a very attentive attitude, which was very noticeable by the minister. "Zachary Graff's frowning face, the very set of his beefy shoulders, drew the minister's uneasy eye; it would be murmured of Dr. Graff's precocious son, in retrospect, that he'd been perhaps too serious (577)". Zachary, who according to Sunny was "-well brilliant (576)", was president of the debate club, was on the staff of the high school yearbook, the school literary magazine, a member of the National Honor Society, and the Quill & Scroll Society. In January of 1959, Zachary began an emotional change that would direct the remainder of this life. He began hanging around the places where he knew Sunny would be. His new found feelings for her had caused him

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