Rick Moody's Boys

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In the short story, Boys, by Rick Moody, the boys go through the process of maturing, growing apart as they age. Moody uses the boys’ childhood, their contrasting personalities, and the loss they experience to convey the remorse and nostalgia that can result from growing up and diverging from one's family.
Throughout the beginning of the story the author describes the boy’s childhood, exemplifying both their closeness to one another as well as the ways they start to differ, first establishing their nostalgia. The boys begin their lives nearly identical in everything they do from the way they dress to the activities they participate in. The author first starts to differentiate between the two with physical appearance. The closeness they lose
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