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A. Hemon's Islands is the narrative of a young boys initiation into the adult
world. The boy travels to a place he has never been before, far away from all the
comforts of his childhood home. The island is full of secrets about the ‘adult world' and
the terrible things that can happen within it. While away, he learns shocking lessons
about the world in which he lives, mainly from his Uncle Julius, who tells scary stories
that he thinks the boy should know about. The boy is unprotected from everything on
the island and everything it contains. Through this unprotected environment, he learns
things about the adult world that are not learned anywhere else.
In the car on the way to the coast, the boy almost loses his voice by singing
"communist songs the entire journey." (129) By his singing songs about "mournful
mothers looking through graves for their dead sons" and "the revolution" the boy
demonstrates his naivity. He is, after all, just a young boy.......

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