How Does Sean O Faolain Present Julia In The Trout

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In “The Trout,” Sean O’Faolain creates a character who is in an important stage of her life that will bring many important changes. Julia is 12, about to be a teenager, yet she is still a child, something that can be a time of much confusion for many. She is questioning everything that is happening and asking why it is so. She gets the typical explanation for such questions from her parents, which always involves some fantastical or mythical figure, and she is figuring out these figures are not real. As she learns that there are many things her family cannot control, she realizes her parents don’t know everything after all, and so she begins finding things out for herself, showing the beginning process of a teenager, going from a child to being more of an adult, taking on things by herself, becoming more individual. Sean O’Faolain clearly shows the struggles many go through during this process, and gives everyone reading it the ability to reflect and understand why they themselves might have felt how they did during such times in their lives. …show more content…

Julia, “... was… at that age… beginning to suspect most stories... already found out too many, from Santa Claus to the Stork.” This is the first stage of the process, as she questions the common explanations for hard questions. She also thinks to herself much, “How could there be a well! In The Dark Walk… she had visited year after year?… `Nonsense.’” Julia is in a process that we all go through. This also shows a deeper meaning, because during that phase is when she realizes that nobody can know everything, which is a realization that we all have at different times and affects us to varying degrees in varying

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