Coming-Of-Age In Isabel Huggan's Celia Behind Me

Since the first spark of human life, coming-of-age has even occurred at the time of Adam and Eve. Many people think that the only part of maturing is puberty. However, one of the greatest parts of growing up is not, surprisingly, going through puberty. Coming-of-age involves recognizing different perspectives.

     Childhood is a time where children learn about the world around themselves. They see and experience many factors that influence their everyday lives, which help them grow stronger when they become adults. In 'Girl'; by Jamaica Kincaid and 'The Lesson'; by Toni Cade Bambara the characters within the stories learn valuable lesson with help them grow to become better individuals. In 'The Lesson'; the character of Sugar undergoes a realization that society does not treat everyone equally, that not every individual has the same opportunity and equality that they should have. In 'Girl'; the main character learns that she must be perceived as a woman and not as a slut, her mother brings to her

The main character throughout most of the book is “Verity”, or Julie. She is actually telling the story of Maddie, however, although her presence seems to still be main focus throughout the story. Halfway through the book, however, it switched to Maddie’s point of view, or “Kittyhawk”. With both of the girls, you can see the changes in them. They both develop greatly and you can see it through them by just looking at what they are afraid of. It mentions once in the story that Julie once said that she was afraid of growing old, and then she say’s later that she could eat her words: she is now afraid of never growing old. “But mainly so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old” (114). With Maddie, you can see her

The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls,” there is a time line in a young girl’s life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind to become a woman. The story depicts hardships in which the protagonist and her younger brother, Laird, experience in order to find their own rite of passage. The main character, who is nameless, faces difficulties and implications on her way to womanhood because of gender stereotyping. Initially, she tries to prevent her initiation into womanhood by resisting her parent’s efforts to make her more “lady-like”. The story ends with the girl socially positioned and accepted as a girl, which she accepts with some unease.

Before detailing the events that take place between Sheba and the under-aged Connolly, Barbara assures the reader that she is merely the narrator, and that ‘This book isn’t about me’(Heller 4). Therein lies the most significant instance of irony that forms the crux of the narrative in Zoë Heller’s

If society was asked what defines “coming of age,” what would it say? Some would say people come of age when they act more mature, think grown up thoughts, or do certain actions. This quote by someone unknown helps form an explanation of what coming of age is: “Maturity doesn’t mean age; it means sensitivity, manners, and how you react.” In the literature piece “The First Part Last,” the author Angela Johnson writes about two teenagers, Bobby and Nia, who struggle with the difficulties of teen pregnancy. Throughout the book, they both face many hardships that put their relationship, patience, and responsibility to the test. With the help of a red balloon, a basketball, and family pictures in a doctor’s office, Bobby comes of age after paying attention to these symbols and signs throughout the novel.

Most of the time, becoming an adult is planned. There are religious ceremonies, the gaining of a driver’s license, and other forms of new responsibility to signify the coming of age. Sometimes though maturity comes at you like a freight train. It comes at you in the blink of an eye and there is no stopping it once it hits you. You are forced to grow up and take on new responsibilities that you thought you wouldn’t have to take on until many years later. It's up to you though to decide what to do from there. You can either try and run away from the problems you have come to face or you can take the train head on and conquer what has been presented to you. I decided to face the train.

Erin Jade Lange is a nonfiction author, as well as a reporter, who writes novels for teens. These novels capture the emotions that some teens feel or often have not gotten over. Attacking numerous situations in her writing, Lange captures topics ranging from obesity to bullying, depression to lies and hurt feelings. She explores the emotions of teens and expands on how certain teens would act. She shows what forms bullying could take and how it starts subtly, then warps into different forms that are, frequently, not easy to distinguish.

In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression.  Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is

The book Celia A Slave Melton McLaurin is telling us what happened to a slave owner and a slave that he brought. This story goes into details on the day of June 23,1855 about how a female slave that murdered her master and how she tried to cover it up. This story took place not far from Jefferson City in Calloway Country here in Missouri when around this time there were still debates over what state is going to be free and what states is going to be a slave one. As you’re reading the book you will see how race relations of that period was very … McLaurin talks in great details about the trail, the political climate of the time of the trail, and the experiences of a slave told in Celia view, and the antebellum time period.

Peter Van Daan Coming of Age In the play The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Peter Van Daan goes from having emotional responses to intellectual responses. During the first months of hiding, Peter is shy and reserved and only talks to his cat Mouschi. In Act 1 Scene 3, Peter refuses to go downstairs for dinner because he just wants to be alone with his cat. Anne offers to feed Mouschi dinner.

This book features a young girl named Minnie. The story begins when Minnie over hears Charles, her friend, invite Kathleen, her classmate, to a party at Charles house. When Mannie over hears it, she immediately goes into shock. As the story goes on, Mannie becomes stressed out because she has not received an invitation to the party. Mannie became worried enough that she lost her appetite to eat and could not focus on her school work. Later on through the story Mannie mother notices that her daughter has been very emotional. To cheer Mannie up her mother explains that no likes to be alone. Finally, Mannie comes to a conclusion that lots of people were invited. She was invited to play kick ball with the other children and notices that Charles

"The forget-me-not summer” is told in a third person point of view. There are roughly 5 main characters in the story, marigold, Zinnie, Lily, Aunt Sunny, and Peter. Marigold, Zinnie, and Lily are the three sisters who live in Los Angeles, that were sent to pruet Massachusetts for three weeks during the summer. They stay with their loving and warm hearted Aunt Sunny, who they do not know very well at first. Peter is a sailor and baseball fan that Marigold and Zinnie happen to run into at the very beginning of their trip. Lily is the sweetest and cutest sister, who is only five years old. Marigold is the oldest sister at 12 years old who has a very supercilious personality, is very independent, and

During the lectures and readings that we have done on coming of age, I have learned that coming of age is a lot like a milestone in life. It happens when we mature or become more knowledgeable and it can happen no matter what age we are. The story, “Boys and Girls”, by Alice Munro, shows us the perfect example of coming of age and is also a story that left a lasting impression on me because of it feminist aspect of a girl’s life.