6 English -- Human Rights

How does the boy prove his maturity at the end of the story?

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The boy who is also the narrator of the story, 'The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" proves his maturity at the end of the story. He has to repeatedly see the ship of his imagination to prove that he has been right all along. He has been ignored by his own mother and the villagers many times. The villagers even beat him up and curse him for his mother's death. He doesn't surrender, however. He decides to show them who he is instead. So in a night of March, the boy steals a boat and keeps waiting for the ship to appear where he had seen it last year. When the ship arrives, he lights a lamp on his boat, the ship then follows the light and the boy leads the ship towards his village. When the ship is near to the village, he blows a large whistle. All the villagers wake up because of the sound and start coming out of their houses. The ship comes onto the ground of the village and stops moving right in front of the church. Finally, all the villagers see the ship and believe the boy. Symbolically, this is his stage of maturity. An ordinary boy who had no belief in himself in the beginning changed into a mature guy fighting against several insults and difficulties in his way.

Source: Old Is Gold

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