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This Boy's Life In “This Boy’s Life,” a memoir by Tobias Wolff, I discovered an interesting passage located on pages 44 and 45 that revealed a softer side of Toby and his friends Taylor and Silver. This soft side was masked behind immature and wreak less behavior. In this passage, Toby and his friends who normally act tough are suddenly tamed and open to their feelings when a program called “The Mickey Mouse Club” comes on the television. Not only did they never once laugh at the somewhat corny program, but “joined the club.” What struck me as interesting was how the boys surrendered their laid back, rebellious act and indulged in the program when they, if they were as bad and as tough as they seemed, would have normally criticized and laughed at it. They watched every minute of it. This is why this passage was interesting. Not only does this passage present a