My Greatest Ambition- Morris Lurie Essay

My Greatest Ambition is about a young Australian boy of long dozen who has a dream of being a derisoryal book artist. This dream is rubbished and scoffed at by everyone whom he hunch overs. He has to clasp his desire a secret from his parents as they give little or no support for such frivolous activities. However, the young Lurie follows his ambition and makes his prototypal queer strip and sends it to a dying mag. Seeing his work the editor in chiefs of this magazine considers asking young Lurie to work for them as a fulltime employee.Here Morris Lurie highlights the disfavor and judgmental mind-sets of adults towards the capabilities of the youth. Lurie skillfully uses sense of humour to highlight some important outcomes in the society. He twists the language and the words to get his point across to the readers in the most entertaining fashion. Lurie uses techniques such as irony, tomography, dialogue, typic teenage overstated language and different point of views t o make his story most enjoyable. At the opening of the story, Nu hilariously describes his peers as There they sat, the astronomer, the nuclear physicist, the business baron (on the stock exchange), two mathematicians, three farmers, countess chemists, a handful of doctors all decrepit thirteen and all with their heads in the clouds.Dreamers Idle speculators A generation of helpless romantics Here, Lurie uses the exaggerated and overtly dramatic language of a typical thirteen year old who thinks he knows everything. Also this idea is very dry as in most societys professions such as doctors and chemists would be considered perfectly normal and creditable. And the idea of becoming a comic book artist would be considered pure fancy. Something which is not stable or respectable.Therefore it is ironic that Lurie thinks of children who aim of having a conventional and conservative ancestry as idle dreams and hopeless romantics. Morris Lurie also makes howling(prenominal) use of ima gery in this mulct story. read by the sorts that were always t sitting under trees and wearing glasses and squinting and turning pages with licked fingers?An grand prospect His sarcastic description of people who read stories without any pictures forms an lofty visual imagery in the readers minds. Lurie also describes the whimsical clothes taking books out f the library and wears to the meeting and the oppose which lead to the final decision. The description of his Good Suit which was slightly short for him at the ankles and the corn yellow, silk tie which with the proper Windsor knot would prevent anyone to tone elsewhere. This provides a vivid visual. Luries chat with Ms. Gordon also provides wonderful auditoria imagery.He also uses imagery when he illustrates how Nu humouredly imagined himself walking into his office through a garden of exotic plants with a pipe in his mouth. our eyes met and I would smile, or was that smile stretched across my face from the second I ca me in? Gives other hilarious example of imagery which is spread throughout the story. The conversation and description of his father is a perfect example of the way Lurie shows the typical teenage exaggeration and uses amusing dialogue to highlight prominent problems in the society.The discourse with Nus father where the father is only interested in the money shows how badly the father is influencing his son. As the father was materialistic and money minded the son feels defensive and begins to think about the money he will receive too. Maybe Ill decide not betray them. Which I will if the price isnt right. This is one of the perfect examples of how the source uses humor to emphasize on social trouble. The description of his clothes shows another instance where teenagers exaggerate and hyperbole.He also foreshadows the fate of the young Nus comic book artiste dream when he writes about the reaction of the editor when he sees Lurie live or the first time. The awkward behavior and the confusion at Nu age gave hints about how any more of Nus comic strip will be treated. As long they didnt know the age of Lurie he was given the respect his work deserved. But as soon as they discovered Lurie to be thirteen he was discharged with a capacity of a child. The author also shows how disappointed and mortified Nu was being at being treated as inferior.In this wonderful story issues such as parental negligence and the judgmental and squeeze mindedness of a rigid society is shown. Problems all teenagers face such as lack of support and teenage angst which is usually not considered as an issue and are stereotyped and dealt with and an indifferent sigh Teenager. Theyll grow out of it. In this story Lurie shows how this attitude and narrow-mindedness can actually suppress rude(a) talent and passion. Again, in My Greatest Ambition Morris Lurie uses great language and humor to create an entertaining but indirectly instructing story.