Maturity can be achieved by just one life changing experience. Gaining maturity can take something as meager as the love for an unwanted child. During the experience Anne had in Chicken, Anne opened her eyes to a new way she sees the world and how she interacts to those who are different. Anne grew up in an area where she never witnessed the kind of poverty that she saw in Chicken. The image opened her eyes to what’s really important in the world. She wanted to show the community of Chicken that they’re humans just like the rest of us. On Anne’s journey to Chicken she witnessed one of the Indian villages and said “ I’d thought the Indians i’d seen at Eagle were poor, but these people have nothing.” The indication that she never witnessed anything like this kind of poverty means that she never crossed such a poor area. In the entirety of the trip, Anne never showed any …show more content…
Anne met a man who was half breed, meaning half indian. Many people did not approve of him, and when Anne grew a liking towards him, the people of Chicken became infuriated. Anne grew to not care what the people thought, as she stayed firm on her belief of everyone as equals. This change in Anne’s attitude also changed the way she did things such as, including Chuck in daily activities, sticking up for the indians, and fighting for Chuck and Ethel when they were taken away. “Don’t take them away from me. What chance are they going to have there in that place? What chance will Chuck have — the chance to grow up speaking broken English and maybe get a job sweeping up at a roadhouse? Or going to work on the riverboats? What chance will Ethel have except maybe to wind up living with some white miner the way her mother did?” Anne’s distressed call to Titus to try and get them back shows she really did want them and didn’t want to lose them. Anne wanted to give them the good life that they
She took on the life of a Comanche woman doing the hard work of setting up tepees and helping dry meat and hides. She also went on many buffalo hunts where she and many other women dried the meat and skins. Parker loved her husband and three children, two boys and one girl, her life in white civilization was forgotten as she now had deep admiration for her Indian life, and never wanted to leave. On one unfortunate day Parker and her daughter were captured and taken away to white settlements. She was given new clothes, a soft bed, and fed food that she sometimes rejected. Parker missed chewing on her carefully made pemmican and her soft antelope hide dress, and she couldn’t get used to the soft bed they had given her to sleep on. During her time in white settlement she was given news of both her husband and second son dieing which brought great sorrow upon her. Another great sorrow brought upon her was the death of her young daughter by a white man’s disease. Life to Cynthia Ann was worthless now that she had lost her beloved daughter. After her daughter's death Cynthia Ann moved to her brother-in-law's home where she died shortly after her arrival. Her first son had not yet forgotten about his beloved mother and went on a search for her. When he found her body he had it place in a new casket with his sister at her side where he was later buried beside them after his
Maturity is not a fickle expression such as happiness or frustration, but rather an inherent quality one gains over time, such as courage or integrity. Before maturity can be expressed, the one who expresses it must have significant confidence in himself, since self-confidence is the root of maturity. Being flexible and formulating one's own opinions or ideas are aspects of maturity, but neither is possible without self-confidence. The greatest aspect of maturity is the ability to make decisions which society does not agree with. Whether or not one follows through with these ideas is not important. What is important is the ability to make the decision. These decisions represent the greatest measure
Transition from being a child to being an adult. The certain age at which the transition takes place as does the nature of change. The choice to place Hannah Coulter’s story as growing up and coming of age in the 20s-40s allows the reader to consider for themselves the contrast between that culture and one of today. After graduation Hannah was gently pushed out of the nest and expected to be self-sufficient, finding a job and a husband. This was accepted and even expected by Hannah, unlike in today’s era in which children often remain with their families well into adulthood. While knowing that Hannah had the support,
Early on in her life Anne realizes that she doesn’t like the way that Africans are treated. As soon as she is old enough to become even somewhat independent she begins to become involved in the rights movement. This causes her major issues within her family. The issues arise for a couple of reasons. For one, her family doesn’t agree with the movement. Anne’s mother is especially against it because she believes it puts Anne in danger. The other major reason that it cause issues in her family is because it puts them in danger. The small town where she comes from is extremely racist
Another force that shaped Moody’s thoughts on race was her interactions with the whites that she worked for within her hometown. This started her questioning of why there was such an emphasis on race. Anne’s job description consisted of cooking, cleaning, ironing, and maintaining houses for whites in her community. With each family Moody worked for, the anger within her grew and the prejudice toward her also grew. Moody expresses how much she desperately wanted to understand the racial inequality that was a part of her world. Some of the kind whites educated her, while others tried to engrain in her mind that she should not try to step out of her role as an African American. One of the rude white families that she worked for was the Burkes. Mrs. Burke, an active member in a local Citizens’ Council and a character that was prejudice towards blacks, had many encounters with Anne. Anne’s interactions with Mrs. Burke make her question the societal norms between whites and blacks. Mrs. Burke tells Anne how to behave and all Anne can do is act as if she understands and agrees with what Mrs. Burke says, but inside, all she can do is question why society is like this. For example, one interaction went like this: “When they had finished and gone to the living room as usual to watch TV, Mrs. Burke called me to eat…Mrs. Burke
As I said before, I grew up in a middle class family. This made it difficult for me to completely understand everything that he was talking about in the book. I never knew what it was like to have little or no food to eat. If we didn’t have anything to eat our family would go to a restaurant and eat or go shopping and get food.
To attain maturity, you must have a loss of innocence. For example, when a kid finds out that Santa Claus is not real, he is disappointed and cannot believe the fact that there is no Santa Claus, because
There was always a discrimination between the blacks and the whites. The whites would publically insult black and announce that they were genetically inferior to white. This made Anne want to know what made them different to whites. One day she made her white friends undress
Anne was curious about why murders, lynching and mysterious fires were taking place in and around her community. Every time she went to her mother for advice or discussion on race relations, she was immediately redirected to a subject less controversial. If Anne wanted to figure any of these issues out, she was going to have to do it on her own.
What are the steps to maturity? In the short story, “The Medicine Bag”, Martin, the main character, and in the video, “Apache Girl’s Rite of Passage”, Dachina, both have similarities and differences in their traditions teaching them the significance of maturity. In addition, there are advantages and disadvantages to either reading the text or watching the video.
A sibling is only missed once he or she has moved out. The donut isn’t nearly as good when it is being eaten, as it seems to be once it is gone. Things are easily taken for granted, as seen in Meredith Hall’s “Killing Chickens.” Hall incorporates her own personal stories, heartache, expirences, and family to reveal to the reader the act and effect of underappreciation. Through short syntax, imagery, and a distant tone, Hall shows how easy it is for things to be taken for granted.
Can an individual truly gain maturity without being presented with any experience that triggers maturing? The answer is proved no while looking at Harper Lee’s marvelous and unique novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The main character Scout Finch illustrates a fine transition from childhood into adulthood over the progress of the book. At the beginning of the story, she possesses innocence and naivety like any other child would do, but she begins to lose those characteristics as the story moves along. The missionary circle tea is a defining moment for her since she deals with different complications and values in life. She sees how the ladies at the meeting are hypocritical and prejudiced, forms a better understanding of what it is to be like a real
In Gary Soto’s short story “Growing up,” Maria “felt she was too grown-up.” Being mature is to act one’s age and to grow as and an adult to become a responsible human being. It is where one’s life will merge in the path of being older. However, will she realize that when one gets older and more mature, that it’s not all fun in games? Serious problems could happen in the flash of an eye. Will she still want to saunter in the park of childhood, or gallop in the fields of adulthood?
A common piece of everybody’s vocabulary today is a word used in various contexts with little understanding to comprehend what it really means. “Maturity”, the stream of questions that come to our mind when we begin to ponder on the eight letter word is numerous. The most basic being, “What is maturity? How does one step up on the pedestal of maturity? And how do we measure maturity?” Einstein puts his perspective on maturity in an even more complicated manner, “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity”, this view point does paint us a picture of maturity, but leads us to a whole new world of mystification.
Green Gables is a place Anne always dreamed of living, and, as soon as it seems all her dreams are finally coming true, the adoption turns out to be a mistake. Marilla and Matthew had intended to adopt a boy to help them on the farm because they were getting older. However, through some mix-up they were given a girl instead. When Anne arrives at the place of her dreams, only to find out it has been a mistake and that she will be sent back, she once again relies on the power of her own mind to get her through her difficult situation. She decides that even if she were sent back to the asylum, she would keep Green Gables always in her mind and be optimistic about her situation.