Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff are comparable in many ways. Both Steinbeck and Wolff use details and sentence structure in such a way to connect with their audience, while still allowing their readers to think for themselves. The quote "I feel that there are too many realities." (Steinbeck, p. 60) represents the ... first describe the event itself, then the reaction of himself as a teenager, and finally ending each scenerio with his thoughts as an adult to give three alternate realities. This was parallel to his own realities, thus connecting the a...

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