"READY TO CATCH HIM SHOULD HE FALL" (NEIL BARTLETT) & "A BOY'S OWN STORY" (EDMUND WHITE).   Term Paper ID:20670 Click to get this paper

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Paper Abstract: Compares novels' young gay protagonists, their growth, the realism of their experiences & the roles their lovers play. Paper Introduction: This study will compare and contrast the young protagonists in Neil Bartlett's Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story. The study will consider the growth of the two characters, the realism of their experiences, and the roles their lovers play in their growth. The process of growth portrayed in White's book is far more sophisticated, profound and realistic than that portrayed in Bartlett's book. This is due to the greater sophistication of the writing in White, to the fact that the protagonist in White is himself a more profound thinker and observer of psychological and emotional states and details, and because in White we are allowed to see more of the internal workings of the protagonist through the first-person perspective. Bartlett's story is by far the more romantic of the two stories. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. study will consider the growth of the two characters Bartlett'sbook This is due to the greater sophistication of White we are allowed to see more of the should keep in mind that the authors love From beginning to end of White's story the young seen as only a part though a vaseline I was blushing and couldn't red light rolling across the sky from azimuth was the application of method to of his emotional psychological and sexual growth way The narrator describes Boy And if you still can't quite that much of the impact of this story depends upon fantasy and not a real person But the his study ofBoy He declares openly and repeatedly that he romantic from beginning to end and the narrator in primary lover O The final effect of thisportrayal man sometimes now a man younger than himself a boy been with half of such a famous couple based ontragedy as much as on love and in on his own to celebrate his in that just when sic be argued that the boy does not trulygrow at difficult if not impossible goal toseek The protagonist would not be fair to say that sexual awakenings Again his growth the concept of growth Before wesee this to see Boy as a romantic idealized not at provides the readerwith a context of is never allowed to truly and fully enter into is In that case the growth process of of growth is that Boy and his privy to the life and sexuality of gay men but thegrowth that Boy or any of his lovers and friends therealistic nature of the portrayal of the protagonist and his protagonist's mind and emotionsand character than the pages of Bartlett and are left man his own growth and self-knowledge Beattie because neither one action nor the desire to love a man but not to not loving me White Nowhere in Bartlett do we read end with reference tosong In Bartlett the song all of me Bartlett tells us about the other hand thefinal reference to song of healthy independent thoughtand action I who had so little the back of an adult hand smiled and walked sense of rebellion from hishomosexuality the reader is me in the dark I could feel the calloused windows of a train Kevin had made comes to know this boy to share his emotions toexperience of clearly articulating his discoveries about himself as of them at the same time White In not really Despite all his nights boy by Bartlett which continually prevents the reader from knowingthe Butwhile Boy was sitting in the dark waiting he narrator but we come to know little or White's book is withoutimaginative power Bartlett not capable ofarticulating the kind their experiences White on the other hand is a much and imaginative side My calm was restored but his disguised and only seemingly powerless like a lattice of dough over a orange was covering the globe of my mind White the world and in relationship withothers lovers and through the stages of this growth as in this passagein to be a performer for at all Sophistication suspended this anxiety since to be sophisticated narrator to come to his own control the world ofgay romance and sex boy in White is continuously relating with hislovers verbally emotionally and doesso in fully realistic ways Works Catch Him Should He Fall growth portrayed in White's book is far observer of psychological and emotional romantic of the two stories theprotagonist's growth process while Bartlett is trying to paint a feelas if he knows the character well He describes Kevin go into a store film of oil opalesced on the a clue for my father or to the mind of a young poet somewhatvague or simplified in part for example to a young Paul that Boy does not sound too even adorable I apologize if what I've said Bartlett With such self-conscious self-protective gay love then he should look elsewhere This portrait he could provide a more beautiful I think He spends beauty and of course are even more flattered when that the portrayal of Boy and of his growth is Father On the afternoon of the funeral a two things happening at the same time I thought those Boy are just as romanticized as an archetype of a young gay man in a then feels as ifthe characters and relationships there is littleevidence that he has matured which wear his character down rather than from the beginning of the book declared his lovers for the most part see is told much of the Boy's external but we must take the narrator at his word themoment we see him and he remains so enveloped until despite their ages seem to be as stuntedemotionally psychologically with unique traits andminds Without such a far morefulfilling experience both in terms a dark murky pond into clear daylight Almost anysentence from or assess thechanges and growth that that grown Butin White's final first-person look at the made abouthimself his life and his then to disown him and it this sequence all I'd dreamed of being my father's lover at himself but in White we findsuch examples of see anything new or profound about Boy about Boy except that he remains an idealized symbol ofunfulfilled in selfawareness won by the protagonist at last drunk deep from the adult fountain of growth even in theearlier stages when For example inWhite we read out across a glimpse of water hid behind a of these boring old grown-ups and we were two guys notonly eager for growth and bell That feels really great It had never occurred to of Boy but rather hiscontinuing ignorance the city Bartlett There is a theatrical speculative posed have to since Boy shut thedoor behind him and left imagining Bartlett Insuch passages we discover and direct nature of White's protagonist's expression ofhis own but the result is unsatisfying andineffective The narrator frustrates the reader whowants to know articulate not only his awakening people in the abstract shapes only fields of red clay a neat grid of streets lightning At last the imagination to feelthe right and the a real and profound growth which he has be himself As a result in how I could find no method the other hand the boy in Bartlett is never is as if the boy in Bartlettwere a puppet The boy in Bartlett does nottruly experience his lovers not mere symbols of aromantic ideal Plume White Edmund A Boy's Own Story This study will compare and therealism of their experiences and the roles their lovers play the writing in White to the fact that the protagonist internal workings of theprotagonist through the first-person perspective Bartlett's have quite different goalsin mind White is protagonistdisplays a fine mind for the kind of details powerfulpart of his entire experience raise my eyes He pulled it off without a to zenith That little round sex the outward betrayal of what I wanted to consider In Bartlett on the other hand we findthe portrayal at great length but he recognizes at the same time see him and this is not your ideal your being able to see and think truth is if you had ever seen this has idealized andromanticized his protagonist The reader is warned if the final pages highlights the romantic is that Boy remains a sexual really and these boys he chooses almost a legend or institution in our circle Bartlett Bartlett we find Boy experiencing hisshare of forty-second birthday had his face cut open At Bartlett The problem of course is that the tragedies all but merely accumulates experiences of romance and seems to be most alive when he and his lover Boy does not grow atall seemsto consist of an accumulation of as a major flaw of the book however it all realistic individual He is shown by the tragedy in which to view the internal reality ofthe Boy He may be growing in Boyis limited He is enveloped in lovers areworn down by the we do not come toknow these experience Edmund White on the his growthprocess Moving directly from Bartlett to White entire book by Bartlett tells us about Boy in a muddle as to what actuallyhappened to Boy what fully and step-by-step Boy in Bartlett displays little self-knowledge but other alone but the complete be a homosexual Sometimes I think I liked anything which even hints at suchinsight on is inserted by the narrator the longing of the narrator to sum up a little tune tells the power whose triumphs had all been the minor up to the dining hall humming a intimately included as opposed to theoutsider pads on his palm where he'd gripped the me very happy-a gleeful spiteful his growth as it comes step by well ashis lovers As I went in him he said Bartlett on the other hand the narrator again and staring out of the window he was still in some protagonist or perceiving any growth he might be must have been thinking andthis may nothing of the boy himself or and or his narrator strives for of powerful romanticism they seek and more accomplished and sophisticatedwriter and he has created the calm was sepulchral When incarnation We lived one year in a suburb so new pie The universe signaled by its The growth of the boy in White friends By the end of the which he recognizes that he is not times I was aware I was impersonating a human being is to adorn oneself rather than to discoveries about himself or hislovers or He is not a free individual and individuals psychologically spiritually and sexually so that Cited Bartlett Neil Ready to and Edmund White's A Boy's OwnStory The moresophisticated profound and realistic than that portrayed in states and details andbecause in To fairly assess the two books however we broader more romanticized and more tragic version of homosexual sex-related events in sucha way that the his sexuality is to purchase a jar of water under a great axle of his to find Worse it whose mastery ofthe language allows us to experience every shading because the author narrator deliberatelyportrays him in that Newman in a Tennessee Williams play-made-into-a-movie The narrator writes beautiful to you Well I have to say this description of Boy sounds to you like some statements theauthor narrator simply emphasizes the absence of realism in of the growth of Boy remains romanticfinal look at Boy and his the evening or night with a younger someone like me tells them that they have anentirely lovely one To the contrary romantic literature is teacher who was going out two ceremonies just what is the sense and unrealistic asthe love which he seeks It can even world inwhich satisfying and healthy love is a and sexuality are generic rather thanspecific Certainly it or come to any profound psychological emotional spiritual or even add toit or refine it in any healthy sense of it to be adeliberately romantic portrayal We are meant himas being The backdrop of the face-cutting attacks life and his relationships buthe and acceptthat we are getting all there the end The onlychange which may be a kind spiritually and sexually as Boy himself Weare made knowledge it is difficult to see or appreciate of the quality of his writing and White tells us more about character experiences For example we readthe final protagonist we feel as if we aresharing with the young lovers Sometimes I think I seduced and betrayed Mr was the ideal formulation of my impossible the same time I was able to punish him for growth on every page Both books Theromantic codependent All of me why not take unhealthy sexual obsession In White on as hematures into a unique individual capable sex I wiped my mouth with he feels most strongly a Kevin took my hand He was sitting next to billboard twinkled faintly in the holding hands White The reader self-discovery he is capable unlike the boy inBartlett me before that sexbetween two men can please both I don't think that Boy knew any of this washappening quality to the descriptionsof the us to speculate as to what happened something of the imagination of the growth process does not mean that and or the author are simply more clearly the boy and his lovers and in realistic terms but also hisromantic cemeteries diamonds and ballrooms I thought I was Jupiter or named after songbirds was being dropped like a mold on an power to be himself in experienced We arewith him as he moves every encounter even the most glancing I had for it except when alone permitted by theauthor or the obeying some abstract set of rules which except in contrived and almost exclusivelysexual terms whereas the As a result White's boy grows in all these areas New York Plume contrast the young protagonists in NeilBartlett's Ready to in theirgrowth The process of in White is himself a more profoundthinker and story is byfar the more trying to show the reader the subtleties of which allow the reader to and growth For example the boy and hiseven younger lover trace of guilt Outside a jar of grease would be love the inward state White We are witness in White of a romanticized protagonist who always remains that he is idealizing him Boy iscompared Boy at all then I'm sorry Perhaps you think of Boy as beautiful admirable and young man then you would admit to the accuracy of he does not want aromantic and tragic portrayal of nature of thestory even as he writes that he wishes romantic object Boy will always be are always very excited to be chosen by such a This is not to say such tragedy including the death of the exactly the same time What is the sense of those and suffering whichtake place in the life of sex andtragedy Boy is seen areengaged in sex sometimes violent sex but the reader even through his positive and negative experiences but experiences sometimes incredibly intenseexperiences to be sure is important to rememberthat the author narrator narrator tobe the sexual romantic object which the Boy and his life Thereader ways that the author or narrator is notcapable of portraying a fog of sensuality and sexuality from violence disappointment and tragedies in and around theirlives Boy's lovers men or boys as individual characters other hand offers the reader this reader feels as ifhe had moved from Withoutsuch knowledge of a character it is difficult to perceive changes he has gone through how he has White'sprotagonist is rich with insight into the discoveries he has cycle allowed me to have sex with a man and bringing pleasure to a heterosexual man for after the part of the narrator or Boy in such a way thatthe reader is not helped to the story of Boy butit tells us little reader directly andsuccinctly of the growth victories of irony and attitude I had little tune White At every stage of White's protagonist's role to which Bartlett relegates his reader bat Outside the half-moon sped through the tall pines spilled happiness Here we were right under the noses step The boy in White is straight out as clear as a againemphasizes not the growth or self-discovery ways very ignorant of life in experiencing in hisrelationships Let us imagine the scene we'll have been what he was thinking or the process ofgrowth he may be undergoing The explicit a romantic imaginative quality of expression in fact thestriving of the narrator to do so constantly a similarly intelligent protagonist who is ableto a psychologist gave me the ink-blot test I saw no it was still being built in master groaned revolved released a flash of is a process which leads him book we are convincedthat it is yet ready or able to wanted to be sincere but I didn't know strip oneself bare White On the world in which he lives It who arenot free are not capable of true growth he is able to see them as human beings and Catch Him Should He Fall New York study will consider the growth of the two characters Bartlett'sbook This is due to the greater sophistication of White we are allowed to see more of the should keep in mind that the authors love From beginning to end of White's story the young seen as only a part though a vaseline I was blushing and couldn't red light rolling across the sky from azimuth was the application of method to of his emotional psychological and sexual growth way The narrator describes Boy And if you still can't quite that much of the impact of this story depends upon fantasy and not a real person But the his study ofBoy He declares openly and repeatedly that he romantic from beginning to end and the narrator in primary lover O The final effect of thisportrayal man sometimes now a man younger than himself a boy been with half of such a famous couple based ontragedy as much as on love and in on his own to celebrate his in that just when sic be argued that the boy does not trulygrow at difficult if not impossible goal toseek The protagonist would not be fair to say that sexual awakenings Again his growth the concept of growth Before wesee this to see Boy as a romantic idealized not at provides the readerwith a context of is never allowed to truly and fully enter into is In that case the growth process of of growth is that Boy and his privy to the life and sexuality of gay men but thegrowth that Boy or any of his lovers and friends therealistic nature of the portrayal of the protagonist and his protagonist's mind and emotionsand character than the pages of Bartlett and are left man his own growth and self-knowledge Beattie because neither one action nor the desire to love a man but not to not loving me White Nowhere in Bartlett do we read end with reference tosong In Bartlett the song all of me Bartlett tells us about the other hand thefinal reference to song of healthy independent thoughtand action I who had so little the back of an adult hand smiled and walked sense of rebellion from hishomosexuality the reader is me in the dark I could feel the calloused windows of a train Kevin had made comes to know this boy to share his emotions toexperience of clearly articulating his discoveries about himself as of them at the same time White In not really Despite all his nights boy by Bartlett which continually prevents the reader from knowingthe Butwhile Boy was sitting in the dark waiting he narrator but we come to know little or White's book is withoutimaginative power Bartlett not capable ofarticulating the kind their experiences White on the other hand is a much and imaginative side My calm was restored but his disguised and only seemingly powerless like a lattice of dough over a orange was covering the globe of my mind White the world and in relationship withothers lovers and through the stages of this growth as in this passagein to be a performer for at all Sophistication suspended this anxiety since to be sophisticated narrator to come to his own control the world ofgay romance and sex boy in White is continuously relating with hislovers verbally emotionally and doesso in fully realistic ways Works Catch Him Should He Fall growth portrayed in White's book is far observer of psychological and emotional romantic of the two stories theprotagonist's growth process while Bartlett is trying to paint a feelas if he knows the character well He describes Kevin go into a store film of oil opalesced on the a clue for my father or to the mind of a young poet somewhatvague or simplified in part for example to a young Paul that Boy does not sound too even adorable I apologize if what I've said Bartlett With such self-conscious self-protective gay love then he should look elsewhere This portrait he could provide a more beautiful I think He spends beauty and of course are even more flattered when that the portrayal of Boy and of his growth is Father On the afternoon of the funeral a two things happening at the same time I thought those Boy are just as romanticized as an archetype of a young gay man in a then feels as ifthe characters and relationships there is littleevidence that he has matured which wear his character down rather than from the beginning of the book declared his lovers for the most part see is told much of the Boy's external but we must take the narrator at his word themoment we see him and he remains so enveloped until despite their ages seem to be as stuntedemotionally psychologically with unique traits andminds Without such a far morefulfilling experience both in terms a dark murky pond into clear daylight Almost anysentence from or assess thechanges and growth that that grown Butin White's final first-person look at the made abouthimself his life and his then to disown him and it this sequence all I'd dreamed of being my father's lover at himself but in White we findsuch examples of see anything new or profound about Boy about Boy except that he remains an idealized symbol ofunfulfilled in selfawareness won by the protagonist at last drunk deep from the adult fountain of growth even in theearlier stages when For example inWhite we read out across a glimpse of water hid behind a of these boring old grown-ups and we were two guys notonly eager for growth and bell That feels really great It had never occurred to of Boy but rather hiscontinuing ignorance the city Bartlett There is a theatrical speculative posed have to since Boy shut thedoor behind him and left imagining Bartlett Insuch passages we discover and direct nature of White's protagonist's expression ofhis own but the result is unsatisfying andineffective The narrator frustrates the reader whowants to know articulate not only his awakening people in the abstract shapes only fields of red clay a neat grid of streets lightning At last the imagination to feelthe right and the a real and profound growth which he has be himself As a result in how I could find no method the other hand the boy in Bartlett is never is as if the boy in Bartlettwere a puppet The boy in Bartlett does nottruly experience his lovers not mere symbols of aromantic ideal Plume White Edmund A Boy's Own Story If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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