Context : In this extract the feelings of a teenager child has been shown. What situations he/she has to face.
Explanation : In this extract the narrator says that teenage specially age of fourteen years in itself is a bad thing. A boy of this age is not considered gorgeous nor useful. It is not possible to show love on him as is shown on littly boy. He is always felt as if he is coming in somebody’s way. If he speaks in a childish way he is called a baby and if he behaves in a grown-up way he is not respected. In fact whatever he speaks makes angry to others. Then he does not get attraction at his growing age his height grows fast and his clothes becomes short for him; his voice also becomes rough and breaks and shivers. His face looks angular and ugly. Eary childhood’s shortcomings can easily be given up but it is hard to bear the mistakes of a fourteen year old boy. The boy becomes shy. When he talks with elderly people he feels extremely forward or shy that he looks ashamed of his very presence.