Vonnegut and Faulkner - Compare and Contrast

In the stories, The Lie, by Kurt Vonnegut and Barn Burning, by William Faulkner, the main characters mature from childhood into adulthood. This adulthood either develops from support of ones family and gentility or it grows internally from ones conscience. We mark off from both stories that the main characters single-valued function this maturity to courageously cover up. In the story, The Lie, Eli matures into adulthood. Due to his p arents miss of understanding of his individuality in the beginning of the story, Eli has to deny his induce feelings. When Eli receives the letter that he was jilted from the esteemed high school, Whitehill, he secretly tears it up since he is nervous of his parents disap stagement. Elis mother, Sylvia, helps him modulation into maturity as she begins to accredit her boys individuality.\nAt the beginning of the story, Sylvia thinks of her son as just a nonher(prenominal) Ramenzal that will be go to Whitehill and even gives him number 30 one (Vonnegut, 2) in the prestigious list of the Ramenzals who nonplus be the institution. Sylvia fails to progress to that Eli has unique qualities that are different from the rest of the Remenzels until the extirpate of the story. When the Remenzels discover from the headmaster that Eli has non been accepted to the school and realize that Eli has ran away because of the tough attitude he got himself into, Sylvia finally recognizes that Whitehill is not the best place for him. This allows Eli to extend up and express his feelings comfortably. We jut this when Eli expresses his feelings of anger at his bewilder for trying to get him into Whitehill, for he realizes he will not succeed there. He says, You shouldnt have done that (Vonnegut, 12). At the point that he is recognized as an individual, he is ultimately fitting to mature through his new-sprung(prenominal) ability to express himself without creation intimidated.\nSarty from the story Barn Burning, alik e develops and matures into adulthood. Throughout th...