The Mustache Theme

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"I still say a seventeen-year-old has no business wearing a mustache" (Cormier 1). This quote told to Mike from his mother is just one of the examples of the theme in "The Moustache", which is there is no rush to grow up. The importance of Mike's mother's statement to him is her way of telling him there is no hurry to develop; he is only seventeen and has no need for his mustache. However Mike doesn't seem to care, despite the fact that his mustache made him look so much older. An example of this is when Mike went to the movies. Normally the ticket is half off for minors, but the lady who works at the box office "took one look at [Mike’s] mustache and charged [him] full price. Even when [he] showed her [his] driver's license" (Cormier 1). However Mike still enjoys the mustache to much to shave it off despite the costly repercussions, making the unconscious …show more content…

According to an investigation done by C&R Research, 22 percent of young children own a cell phone (ages 6-9). Why so young? They aren't going to set up their own playdates, and they shouldn't be checking an Instagram or Twitter account. Continuing to the subject of social media, according to a 2011 study headed by Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, 55 percent of parents of 12-year-olds said that their child was on Facebook and that 76 percent of those had helped the child gain access. Facebook requires for anyone who registers to be 13 years or older, (that itself could be argued to be too young), but the reason you have under-aged kids on there is the haste to mature; and adults should be quelling that urge, not stirring it up. The short story “The Moustache” by Robert Cormier has the fantastic theme that there is no rush to grow up. Nowadays, some people forget that, and either push or allow children to mature faster then they have to. What needs to happen is for people to slow down; it is going to happen, no need

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