My Greatest Ambition- Morris Lurie Essay

My Greatest Ambition is ab appear a two-year-old Australian boy of thirteen who has a dream of being a comic book artist. This dream is rubbished and scoffed at by e veryone whom he knows. He has to keep his desire a secret from his parents as they give lowly or no support for much(prenominal) frivolous activities. However, the new-fashioned Lurie follows his aspiration and makes his first comic strip and sends it to a dying magazine. Seeing his make believe the editors of this magazine considers asking young Lurie to work for them as a fulltime employee. here Morris Lurie highlights the prejudiced and judgmental mind-sets of adults towards the capabilities of the youth. Lurie skillfully wasting diseases humor to highlight some fundamental issues in the society. He twists the style and the words to get his point cross authoritys to the readers in the intimately entertaining fashion. Lurie uses techniques such as irony, imagery, dialogue, typic young exaggerated language and different point of views to 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 headache tycoon (on the stock exchange), two mathematicians, three farmers, countess chemists, a handful of doctors alone aged thirteen and all with their heads in the clouds.Dreamers Idle speculators A contemporaries of hopeless 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 ironic as in most societys professions such as doctors and chemists would be considered stainlessly normal and creditable. And the idea of becoming a comic book artist would be considered pure fancy. Something which is not persistent or respectable.Therefore it is ironic that Lurie thinks of children who aim of having a conventional and standpat(prenominal) occupation as idle dreams and hopeless romantics. Mo rris Lurie overly makes wonderful use of imagery in this short story. read by the sorts that were always t sitting under trees and wearing glasses and squinting and turning pages with shell fingers?An awful prospect His sarcastic description of people who read stories without either pictures forms an ideal visual imagery in the readers minds. Lurie also describes the comical vesture taking books out f the library and wears to the showdown and the struggle which lead to the final decision. The description of his Good Suit which was or so short for him at the ankles and the corn yellow, silk tie which with the proper Windsor knot would rule out anyone to look elsewhere. This provides a vivid visual. Luries conversation with Ms. Gordon also provides wonderful auditoria imagery.He also uses imagery when he illustrates how Nu humouredly imagined himself walking into his office by dint of a garden of exotic plants with a pipe in his mouth. our look met and I would smile, or wa s that smile stretched across my face from the second I came in? Gives another hilarious example of imagery which is spread passim 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 salient(ip) problems in the society.The discourse with Nus father where the father is only evoke in the funds shows how badly the father is influencing his son. As the father was mercantile and money minded the son feels defensive and begins to think about the money he will receive too. Maybe Ill decide not sell them. Which I will if the price isnt right. This is one of the perfect examples of how the author 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 response of the editor when he sees Lurie live or the first time. The awkward port and the disappointment 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. nevertheless as soon as they discovered Lurie to be thirteen he was dismissed with a capacity of a child. The author also shows how let down and humiliated Nu was being at being treated as inferior.In this wonderful story issues such as parental negligence and the judgmental and narrow 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 keep down natural talent and passion. Again, in My Greatest Ambition Morris Lurie uses great language and humor to create an entertaining but indirectly in structing story.