The American Male at Age Ten - Response

I felt "The America Male at Age Ten" was refreshing and unexpected. I would've assumed from the title that I would be reading a description of how a male at age ten in America looks, acts and talks form an outside perspective. While I still got an outside perspective, I was surprised to find that I also got a profile written in the likes of a grown woman, using the imagination of a young boy. Susan Orlean creates a world that we all once knew: the world of a young child. They way she describes a young boy is how a lot of us thought when we were younger, with the "babies that magically appear" and "having every kind of animal." I really enjoyed that she inserted herself into the picture, so that it was clear we were getting this perspective from the grown woman about a young boy.