![]() Because he is desirous of being indecipherable, he practices a mysterious and unemotional expression. His young life is full of educational moments: he appears in a class production of The Round Table as a juvenile Lancelot in unexpected make-up and tights he uses his Sunday school money to buy a bag of candy and a movie ticket his attendance at Friday Afternoon Dance Class is in opposition to his summer night questing excursions he is blamed when his sister's dress is found in the doghouse. Whenever Penrod encounters an immediate problem by answering with a sudden response, conflicts become more confusing and less easily analyzed by a small boy. ![]() Booth Tarkington's record of an 11-year-old boy living in Indiana is a true consideration of how the trivial insincerity of adults and the artlessness of children are humorously woven together to create encompassing moral puzzles. ![]()
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