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by Denise, (45 posts) on March 1st, 2013
“My Greatest Ambition” is a short story written by Morris Lurie in 1984. The story is about a boy who wants to be a comic-strip artist one day. He explains his friend’s attitudes towards his job in first person narration. He draws his first comic and then sends it to a magazine for publication with the help of his friend. The magazine really likes his comic and they want to have it. They offer him some money. Lurie the protagonist becomes very excited and draws his second comic. He then again, sends it to the magazine. The magazine rejects his second work and Lurie gets very disappointed. He grew out of comics after that.
This made me think about what dreams people have and what is realistic and what is not. I think that a lot of kids have dreams like becoming famous or having a job such as being an astronaut. In the story the young boys dream is to become a comic writer, i think that this is a realistic job. It is possible and a lot more likely to happen then become famous. A lot of girls at the age of 6 start to dream about being a princess and thats what they want to be when they are older. But as we grow up we start to see reality and we see that becoming a princess is quite impossible and unrealistic.
” I had become, like everyone else, a dreamer.”
This quote makes me feel bad for the young boy. He really wanted to become a comic writer and even got the offer to get his comic published. But when he wrote his second one they did not want it , and this completely crushed the young boys dream. When he says he had become a dreamer like everyone else it tells us that the boy gave up his dream, and he see’s himself as failing to accomplish the one thing he really wanted to do. It is upsetting that after getting his second comic rejected he stopped writing comics and gave up.
I think this story was really good and Morris Lurie did an amazing job. The story was very ineresting and realistic. It was also easy to read and understand.
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