Coming Of Age Home Analysis

Efficiency: Whatever idea, thought, plan or action we do, must be efficient enough to make us reach our set goal.

Abduction n.- the action or an instance of forcibly taking someone away against their will. In the book, The Cellar by Natasha Preston, is about a teenager who decided to go have a fun, memorable night with friends and the ended up getting abducted and locked up for eight months. Coming of age is shown throughout this book. Coming of age is shown because Summer deals with being abused,the death of others, and being thrown back into society after a long period of time.

In history, humans have influenced ways to abuse each other in hateful ways. Because of hate, all miserable things that happen to people relates to mob mentality. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel states, “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.” Throughout history, humanity has seen dignified people pursuing horrendous actions because these individuals got caught up in mob mentality.

Human nature: a collection of thoughts, behaviors, ideals and morals, encompassing how humans act and respond to certain situations. It includes positive reactions, such as happiness, creativity, love, and kindness, as well as negative ones, such as hatred, jealousy, and anger. Yet, one aspect of human nature still remains prevalent as one of the most influential concepts in choosing how to behave: revenge. Revenge, a powerful concept and idea, can turn the minds of even the purest, twisting them to form negative preconceptions and cause individuals to perform heinous acts. Working in coalition with other negative aspects such as anger and hatred, revenge can be the root cause of many negative actions or thoughts individual tend to harbor that cannot be explained. Nevertheless, the concept of revenge still remains a mystery to many, including those within the academic setting. Thus, many argue, in an academic setting, the varying sides of the concept, trying to find where the idea itself stems from, how it plays into human nature, and how the thought works in conjunction with other thoughts and ideals. Two such pieces, “Of Revenge” by Francis Bacon and “He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk” by Brady Udall, explore and examine the aspects of revenge and how it relates to human nature, but Bacon’s piece helps the reader develop a further understanding of Udall’s piece. While Bacon tries to dissect the concept of revenge itself and its role in human nature, Udall displays the

The United States of America, the land of the free. Well, mostly free if one’s skin tone matches the approval of society. The never-ending war on racism, equality, and segregation is a huge part of American culture. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement equality was laughed at. People of color were highly discriminated and hated for existing. During the years 1950 up until 1970, racism began to extinguish its mighty flames. Through the lives of numerous people equality, would soon be a reality. The Autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, it takes the readers through first person accounts of all the racism, social prejudice and violence. The autobiography holds nothing back, allowing the author to give insight on all the appalling events and tragedies. The experiences of Anne Moody reveals an extremely strong connection to how wrong segregation was. The Coming of Age in Mississippi is an accurate representation of life in the south before and during the Civil Rights Movement. This novel follows the experiences of Anne Moody growing up, showing her different ways of thinking as she grows older. From poverty filled childhood to becoming an activist within the Civil Rights Movement. She faces various obstacles which disillusion her in the fight for equality. This novel especially shoes the extent people would go to in order to preserve their prejudice ways of life.

The well-written autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is the story of her life as a poor black girl growing into adulthood. It depicts life in a rural Mississippi town during the civil rights movement of the 1940’s and 1950’s.

Injustices fuel the Earth with hate and anger, by robbing us of our basic rights and tearing our souls apart wrongdoing after wrongdoing. In countries stripped from peace and in war, there is an injustice commencing. Human fears, an agony felt when a roar of chemicals are released through our body, assemble a mental outlook of suspicion, blame, and violence which lead to an injustice forming and destroying a lives.

In the novel “A Long Way Gone”, there are endless amounts of evidence to be found explaining why this novel is a “coming of age” novel. So, what exactly is “coming of age”? Typically, this is a story that is made up of three different factors: young characters who experience a crisis, absent or negative adult relations, and the incorporation of an epiphany moment. The story of Ishmael Beah could not be an any greater representation of this category of story, because at 12 years old there is no peace that could be described in his childhood simply because peace was absent.

The ways that the roles of older brother Sam and younger brother Tim change throughout the story. In the beginning of the story Tim’s role as a younger brother when Sam was at Yale was he had to milk old Prune and do his brother Sam’s chores. But, at the end of the story his role as a younger brother was the responsibilities of running the tavern with only his mother. Tim also, worried about Sam being a Rebel in the Revolutionary War. The roles of older brother Sam changes in the story. In the beginning of the book Tim admired Sam because he was his older brother. At the end of the story his role was to fight in the war because he wanted the glory.

The movie I've chosen to display the "Coming of Age" theme is Beauty & the Beast; a classic Disney tale whose story revolves around a young, middle-class book worm named Belle, and a conceited prince-turned-monster who is only ever referred to as "Beast". I believe this movie perfectly fits into the 'Coming of Age' model as both of its main characters experience drastic life changes, which turn out to be valuable learning experiences in the end. On Belle's side of things, a series of unfortunate events in relation to her father wind her up a prisoner for life to, you guessed it, the Beast. In her so-called 'imprisonment', Belle captivates the heart of the Beast, along with the other inhabitants of his castle, and becomes independent as a result of her deficient parental unit.

Justice is a defining factor of human motivation—it can result in the triumph or demise of a person’s actions. Nevertheless, justice is not only the blade that separates good from evil, but it is the adhesive that cements all of humanity together to form an overall gluttonous species. Justice is at the root of everyone’s greatest desires. Though the purpose of one’s justice may vary, it is seen through history of the inevitable—the truth is always revealed. Some people spend their entire lives attempting to expose the lies that suppressed their greatest desires and caused their greatest failures.

Should a person commit evil, he should not do it again and again; he should not find pleasure therein: painful is the accumulation of evil.

After reading the article by Nuñez and Pfeffer, I learned that over 1.8 billion youth people practice several types of traditions: celebrations, faithfulness to their religion, and rituals as symbolism of either manhood/womanhood, maturity stage, or strength. I believe some cultures created their ceremonies to mark “coming-of age” due to changes in the women's and men’s bodies (puberty). I believe cultures are honoring and accepting the young people in their families and society for all the hard work and accomplishments. For Hispanic coming of age tradition, it’s a chapter in part of the Hispanic women’s life as representation of their maturity, womanhood, and opportunity to be gratitude towards God. Once entering into womanhood/manhood, young people change their personality and their attitudes compared to when the young people were 4 year olds. Therefore, their society and family celebrate these old customs as a gratification of their coming of age.

Most common cultures have rituals, celebrations, or traditional ceremonies to acknowledge the coming of age of boys and/or girls. The Hispanic culture have a traditional “Quinceañera” for young teenage girls turning age 15 to recognize her coming of age as a woman. Jews have “Bar Mitzvah” for men or “Bat Mitzvah” for women to celebrate coming of age. Although in some cultures, celebrating coming age is nothing less than actually celebrating; but in other cultures, such as Aborigine culture, rather than having a huge celebration, young teenage boys, age thirteen, are enduring an essential evaluation. In this stage of their life, their elders test them to see if they are “man” enough to survive by themselves.

However, interestingly enough, the evil that is unique only to mankind seems to present itself in a variety of vices, which includes unjustly unilateral power structures, unhealthy fixations to materialism, or even fanatical, obsessive commitments to a single ideology or belief system. In works such as JM Coetzee’s Foe, Nadine Gordimer’s “Loot,” and Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” each of their respective authors provide a glimpse of the cultural and social consequences of a vice in action while simultaneously highlighting humanity’s inherent need to justify themselves and the actions related to that