Recommended: Troubles of emerging to adulthood
The book explores the feeling and experience of one 's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body starts to give up but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. The book offers a wide vision of the issues that we go throughout our lives: the struggle to achieve goodness; how to maintain individuality in a mass society; and how to emerge out of suffering, loss, and limitation and so on. The book is an important contribution to the literature of aging, and of living. Scott-Maxwell’s book is compelling.
Coming of Age Life is all about choices and how we choose to make them. Who we are and where we go in life is largely determined by decisions that we choose to make: where we go to college, who our friends are, who we eventually decide to marry. However, sometimes in life, we encounter a situation where we are forced to mature maybe before we are ready. In my case, my younger brother was born when I was seven with a multitude of health problems. While my parents were preoccupied with taking care of him, I sometimes was forced to fend for myself and making sure my younger sister was cared for.
Life is filled with decisions. Minor decisions about small every day choices like deciding to buy a coffee or to go to the mall. These are all choices that will not have a crucial effect on someone’s life. Major decisions like selecting a college or choosing to move on after a traumatizing experience are not favored by many, but must be made in order to Come of Age. In the classic novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the realistic fiction book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, and the young adult piece Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson the authors introduce hardships to the characters that require them to make crucial decisions and Come of Age.
Jamie Lee Curtis said, “Getting older makes you more alive. More vitality, more interest, more intelligence, more grace, more expansion. ” When you are coming of age, you become more mature, experience more things, and realize important things in the world. Coming of age is when you are considered an adult and have the responsibilities of being an adult.
Responsibility is very important for people living out in the real world. It has been taught to us since we were little, but some have either forgotten it, or flat out ignored it. Responsibility, what is it? Responsibility is taking care of yourself and making sure you do what you need to do to succeed at school, work, home, and life in general. Here is a quote from The Glass Castle that shows how irresponsibility is shown, “Mom lay wrapped up in blankets on the sofa bed, sobbing about how much she hated her life.”
Losing Loved Ones And Losing yourself Have you ever lost something important to you or have you ever felt like you were losing yourself? Coming of age is anytime you make steps towards growing up whether you are 12 years old or 35. Anytime an event in your life causes you to grow up this is your coming of age. Finding one's identity and experiencing loss are two essential components of growing up and coming of age.
With the undeniable truth, everyone must age and grow older. Although this is a natural process of life, not everyone is accepting of this. At this age, being an older adult you face difficulties such as aging, sexuality, relationship dynamics and having to face reality that you are not in your prime as you once were. Heart attacks, strokes, and other ailments are examples of this. However, just as there younger counterparts they still able to do somethings they were able to do in their earlier stages.
There always comes a moment in a person 's life when one has to grow up, which is sometimes known as coming of age. The period is characterized by a young person who undergoes transition into an adult stage, thus learning to act and live like an adult. While the process of development occurs naturally as an individual advance of his age, it can also be influenced by occurrences, which force the person to grow faster. In most instances, the societal forces force a child to mature faster since one is acquainted with the responsibilities of an adult. For instance, during the civil war era, young people were forced into military so that they can join the war, this taking up the role of adults in the society.
Being responsible in America can be achieved in many ways. From serving in the military to voting you can be responsible. Being in the military does not just make you a better person but you are considered a hero. Being in the military makes you better prepared for getting a job, and will make you have a better work ethic.
Maturity is the feeling of needing to prove that one is sophisticated and old enough to do certain things. In the short story “Growing Up,” Maria’s family went on a vacation while she stayed at home, but when she heard there was a car crash that happened near where her family was staying, she gets worried and thinks it is all her fault for trying to act mature and angering her father. Society wants to prove how mature they are and they do so by trying to do things that older people do and the symbols, conflict, and metaphors in the text support this theme. First and foremost, in “Growing Up,” Gary Soto’s theme is how society acts older than they are and that they just want to prove they are mature. Maria wants to stay home instead of going
Growing up in Detroit Michigan I learned early in life that it is important to strive to do your best. As a child I wondered how life would be once I grew up. Moreover, I dreamed about the destinations that I wanted to travel to, the career that I want to pursue after graduating from college. I knew that the life that my parents lived was not for me.
The age of adolescence, is what I find to believe, the age of rebelliousness. As we make the transition from being a child, to an adult, we start to make our own decisions. No longer do we listen to the constant blabbering of someone telling us, what is right, and what is wrong for us. Instead, we break free from the ones controlling us, and find our own path, rather than travelling in the direction they are pushing us towards. From a young age, we must learn how to make our own judgement of things, and learn how to fend for ourselves.
Theories of late adulthood development are quite diverse in later adulthood than at any other age. They include self-theory, identity theory and stratification theory. The self-theory tries to explain the core self and search to maintain one’s integrity and identity. The older adults tend to integrate and incorporate their various experiences with their vision and mission for their respective community (Berger, 2008). Also, the older people tend to feel that their attitude, personalities and beliefs have remained in a stable state over their lives even as they acknowledge that physical changes have taken place in their bodies.
Late Adulthood is the stage of the human life cycle where an individual nears the end of their life. The life expectancy in the United States has slowly increased over the years therefore allowed many to further analyze the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development during late adulthood. The stage of late adulthood has been emphasized by ageism and the stereotypical "old" person but, will be further educated by the normative development of the life cycle of late adulthood. For the “old” experience dramatic changes in their development as they face loss, death, and illness.
In this trait involves the ability to act responsibly, which is often said to be maturity in itself. However, being responsible simply means putting needs before desires in order to undoubtedly secure their success. This ability is crucial to the decision-making process, and others in the process as well. While everyone wishes to have something or do something putting needs ahead on that list takes a lot of effort. Putting needs aside and focusing on wants such as a new car, or the shoes on tv show a lack of priority.
