This Boy's Life is the autobiographical story of Tobias Wolff's childhood and young manhood. Tobias, who changes his name to Jack to celebrate author Jack London, treks across America with his mother during the 1950s. Beset by hardships, Jack struggles with coming of age and with his mother's insecurities. He seeks futilely to reconnect with his distant and troubled father, then finally washes out of school and joins the army just in time to serve in Vietnam.
Comparative analysis of A Boys Life and Womens Right to Vote The speech Womens Right to Vote by Susan B Anthony and the memoir This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff are two very different works in both style and context Anthony wrote the speech in 1872 to appeal to the American public for taking away womens suffrage and treating women unfairly Wolffs memoir is written to depict his early life as a teenager in 1950s and the people around him Wolff does not explicitly indicate womens social roles in the
A Struggle For Identity In the memoir This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff Toby is continually attempting to reinvent himself for the recognition of others As he and his mom travel to different states to run away from certain men or for the sake of money Toby begins to change slowly During this journey Toby is left with no beneficial male influence This causes him to develop few behavioral problems For instance since he does not get discipline by his mother he does not know any better In Wolffs memoi