Identity In This Boy's Life By Tobias Wolff
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In the book This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff gets characterized as someone who wants to change his identity but never seems to find how, shown throughout with his actions and doings. Wanting to change and form into someone else is shown all over the book, but there are main sections for example, when Toby decides he wants to leave Dwight’s house and start over by going to Paris, he thinks that he could just move there and instantly become a new person by lying about his past and ways. As the book shows on page 137, “At the end of the letter I pleaded with my uncle to bring my mother and me to Paris. If he would just help us get started, I said, we’d be on our feet in no time. We would find jobs and pay him back whatever we owed. I said I didn’t