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Coming Of Age Essay

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Every individuals even the father of the children have experienced coming of age. They were educated, graduated, employed and living in a life after that. Yuito Nakane’s father Masashi Nakane also have experienced coming of age in his life. Masashi was full Japanese and was strict or cares a lot to small matters. He is talented in both studying and exercising so that he have a chance to skip classes during high school. Because of his personality, he won’t do worthless things. But he will creates interests to many different things and this is the greatest factor that changed his coming of age to difficult experience. Masashi was educated in industrial high school and learned about mechanics. In high school, he have lots of chance to handle different kind of machines. Since he had lots of experience and knowledge, he could go to college but he didn’t. He can’t go to college because he have to take care of his parent’s store and earn money to help them. He explained that this is the main reason that he began working instead …show more content…

The knowledge he gained in industrial high school helped him during the job in cars. Since he learned lot about mechanics and used lots of machines, those knowledge and the skills he learned in high school supported him in handling the cars. In addition, he used these knowledge to communicate with the coworkers. Masashi said that if the knowledge from high school helps during the jobs, then the knowledge from the jobs will help in the future life. He can ensure that the knowledge from the jobs will help in the future life because he gained lots of knowledge during jobs and that is still used today. He gained the skills to slice meat in the meat shop, learned skills and knowledge to handle cars and also have some of the health knowledge in the fitness gym. These knowledge still used during cooking, fixing and remodeling cars and to heal injury or to make healthy

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