This Boy’s Life is a memoir written about the author, Tobias Wolff, childhood memories and his growing pains during the 1950s. Throughout the memoir, Wolff goes through a process of discovering his own self-identity. (A process that many adolescent faces.) As described before the passage, being realistic about his identity makes him feel bitter. Jack doesn’t approve of himself and rather identify himself as another person. On page 213 and 214, Jack is writing his own recommendation letters from his “teachers” to get accepted by prep schools. After the passage, he describes how he and his friend would fight each other. Here, Wolff explores the theme of self-identity through hyperbole, humor, tone, connotation, and more. In the first paragraph,