Poems

In the poem "rites of passage" I tried to determine if their were any similarties from this and "A&P". The only thing that i could take from was how the author took time to fully describe each character in extreme detail, that it similar to what John Updike did in his story. In "The One Girl at the Boys' Party" it was kind of the opposite of Sammy's role in "A&P", she was the one girl singled out by the presence of only males. The author showed how she used math as a tool of constant calculation to determine everything around her. Then the follow of detail, once everyone exited the pool, was similar to how Sammy looked at Queenie and the others.