Part one of term paper
A. Hemon’s Islands is the narrative of a young boys initiation into the adult world. The boy travels to a place he has never been before, far away from all the comforts of his childhood home. The island is full of secrets about the ‘adult world’ and the terrible things that can happen within it. While away, he learns shocking lesson ...

Part two of term paper
... the car on the way to the coast, the boy almost loses his voice by singing “communist songs the entire journey.” (129) By his singing songs about “mournful mothers looking through graves for their dead sons” and “the revolution” the boy demonstrates his naivity. He is, after all, just a young boy. His limited life experience is shown in his singing such songs, without understanding the full meanings and connotations that those songs carry. The boys’ innocence is emphasized ...