Greatest Ambition Summary Essay

Morris Lurie was born in Melbourne in 1938. He is better known for his in short stories though he has written some novels too. He has won several awards in Australia for fiction. The days spent away from Australia in spontaneous exile form the subject progeny of much of his writing. Background/SettingThe primary(prenominal) character is a school male child whose greatest ambition is to be a comic strip artist. The story explores the uncertainties and trials of organism an adolescent with unsupportive parents.In the short story My Greatest Ambition by Morris Lurie, we experience the disenchantment of a thirteen-year-old boy as he tries to live a dream that he initially supposition would set him apart from all others. Nus illusion is set up when his find calls him a prince right before Nus meeting. It was the first cadence that his get down had complimented him throughout the duration of the memoir. Even though his father was not directly trying to empower Nu false hope, t he effect of this praise on Nu seemed to point him to that direction. The reference to a prince relates to advantage and fortune, which would subconsciously give Nu the impression that he would prosper and become a palmy comic strip artist at Boy magazine.The disillusionment begins when he approaches the office. Nu expects the building itself to be grand and imposing but instead he sees a very(prenominal) mediocre building that looked like a movery. He outlines his disappointment when he says No neon, no massive areas of main office glass, no exotic plants growing in white gravel. Each time he repeated the word no, it added to his growing sense of disappointment. He similarly uses repetition with the word ordinary as he describes the details of the building, which emphasises his realisation of disillusionment.When Nu is creation toured around the factory he says, I was eating an ice-cream, which indirectly makes Nu seem to a greater extent immature and out of place. This co ntrasts from the illusion that Nu had originally of himself walking to fake every forenoonwith a pipe in my (his) mouth. Since his hallucination of being a grown populace smoking his pipe and going to work had turned into being a 13 year old in a ridiculous suit eating ice-cream, the disillusionment becomes a more prominent factor in the story.