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This Boy's Life
Wolff, Tobias
Blue Valley Freshman Communication Arts
This Boy's Life is the memoir (autobiography) of Tobias Wolff's life as a high school boy in the 1950s. Tobias leads the life of a juvenile delinquent. He lies, swears, steals, drinks, cheats, practices to be a sniper, and vandalizes. His destructive actions are in part a response to circumstances out of his control -- his parents are divorced and his mother remarries a man who is mentally and physically abusive to him. Yet within these difficult circumstances, Tobias makes life much worse for himself by taking a deliberate series of choices that hurt others.