The story, 'The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship', which iswritten by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about thematurity and consciousness of an ordinary boy whochanges significantly in the course of time rather thanthe appearance and disappearance of the ship. Theship so far described in the story is the boy's vision. Theboy enables himself to control the visionary ship in the end.Though confused in the beginning of his talents andvisions, he grows in the passage of time and makesthe disbelievers...

The boy who is also the narrator of the story, 'The Last Voyage ofthe Ghost Ship" proves his maturity at the end of thestory. He has to repeatedly see the ship of hisimagination to prove that he has been right all along. He has been ignored by his own mother and thevillagers many times. The villagers even beat him up and curse himfor his mother's death. He doesn't surrender, however. Hedecides to show them who he is instead. So in a night ofMarch, the boy steals a boat and keeps waiting for...

The refrain, "Now they're going to see who I am"suggests the boy's strong determination. He discovers anew ability in him which enables him to control theship's movement. The boy goes on becoming strongerand stronger. The ordinary boy in the beginning can'tshare the vision of his ghost ship with any one but lateron, when he grows older, he shares it with hismother and then the villagers. None of them believehim but it instead gives him a new man's voice and new spirit.Thus, charged with his...