Hoodhood Coming Of Age Quotes

But, that's not what holling wants to do, not at all. He wants to find himself and be what he wants, he’s evolving into this confident, and determined young adult, he is no longer an unsteady, average seventh grade boy. Holling’s father is all about his business, Hoodhood and Associates, he wants to always be on top of all the architectural firms in Long Island, New York. He wants everyone else to go out of business and this next quote shows that, “I’ll probably be moving. Where? I said. To my grandmother’s house. In Kingston. I nodded. Another minute or so of not saying anything went by.” (187). In conclusion, this highlights the motivation and determination to confront his father on how arrogant and smug he is about his business. This makes Holling see how his dad treats and thinks about other people when they run for the same job as him. In the chapter “April,” when Holling’s dad didn’t show up to take Holling to the opening day at the Yankee’s stadium, Holling was very disappointed. When Mrs. Baker offered to take him she said, “Call your mother and see if it’s all right.” (193). They went on their way down “The Long Island Expressway driving towards New York City.” (194). Imagine how bad Holling felt when his father didn’t show up, imagine what he thinks of his father after how he acts about his job and now the Yankee’s

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.” (Lee, 76). As seen in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about growing up and the reality of life, there are various events that influence one’s morality, behavior, and perspective towards life. From the innocence of a child to the maturity of an adult, growing up is a phase that generally everyone experiences throughout their lifetime. The quote above is said by Atticus Finch towards his feisty daughter Scout (who is in fact the narrator of the actual novel); personally, I can pertain greatly to what Atticus said, for I had to learn to depend not on my own strength but on the LORD’s to fight and win my battles, whether spiritual, emotional, physical, or mental. However, this change in attitude did not occur in an instant, but was the result of years of struggles and perseverance, from my childhood to my adolescence; it was initiated with my parents’ announcement of our move from our home in Palmetto, Georgia across the United States to Dinuba, California.

A seventh grader whose school is largely divided between Catholics and Jews. But, because Holling is a Presbyterian, he has to stay alone with Mrs. Baker on Wednesdays. Causing him to think that Mrs. Baker hates his guts. During these Wednesday's, Mrs. Baker makes Holling do extra work. Each time, he thinks that she was making him do things because she hated him. First she makes him do physical work, but after a while she has him learning Shakespeare. Games were being played between his dad’s company, Hoodhood and Associates, and other nearby corporations. Holling dislikes the fact that his dad will never care about what he asks if it might have the slightest chance of disrupting a deal. In a short amount of time, Holling starts

Normal life is not an option with a ferocious 30 year war going on, and it is no easier if it takes place on the other side of the world in Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars searches through the ideas of boundaries by using the life of a normal boy, Holling Hoodhood, to show the feelings of growing up in the midst of the Vietnam War. Holling has to learn how to grow up and explore his relationships and ultimately find himself. Throughout the novel The Wednesday Wars, Holling examines the boundaries of war through his experiences with his father, Ms. Baker, and his readings of Shakespeare all develop the theme of comfort, independence, and masks.

In the novel “Tomorrow When the War Began” written by John Marsden, one important idea that was developed throughout the written text was how life events change people. People develop the most during their teenage years which is when they are affected the most during their life.Major life events change people and teenagers need to understand this. In this novel, seven teenagers go camping and when they emerge from the bush there are fires everywhere, the power is out and the animals are dead. The small town of Wirrawee has been invaded by the army. The idea of how life events can change people is shown through the technique of characters. With the events of war, Ellie showed how she grew up and lost her innocence because of the choices she

When you think of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee what do you think about? On the second read of the novel you realize how many coming-to-age experiences there are. The novel shows part of growing up is learning about society but not necessarily accepting it. The author uses Dill’s character development and his conflicts his subplot regarding his family to express the theme.

One main theme of this book is how war can change people and this shows how it changed just an ordinary girl who ended up getting "dirty".

Vietnam. The story is told from the perspective of Richie Perry, a young soldier from Harlem.

The novel, Tomorrow When the War Began, by John Marsden, tells the story of a brave group of unlikely heroes who journey out to camp in ‘Hell’. Throughout this novel, the characters are able to change the way they act, feel and treat others. This opens up new, stronger relationships in the group, and creates an unbreakable bond between certain characters.

Tim Meeker from My Brother Sam Is Dead faces many hard times as his and the countries coming of age parallel with each other. In Addition, in this wonderful novel of the American Revolution Tim begins to grow up and face many hard challenges through the process. As the war comes to Redding that when thing really begin to get tough (Collier, 1974). Will Tim survive the nasty times and challenges of the countries and his own coming of age?

The Viet Nam War has been the most reviled conflict in United States history for many reasons, but it has produced some great literature. For some reason the emotion and depredation of war kindle in some people the ability to express themselves in a way that they may not have been able to do otherwise. Movies of the time period are great, but they are not able to elicit, seeing the extremely limited time crunch, the same images and charge that a well-written book can. In writing of this war, Tim O'Brien put himself and his memories in the forefront of the experiences his characters go through, and his writing is better for it. He produced a great work of art not only because he experienced the war first hand, but because he is able to convey the lives around him in such vivid detail. He writes a group of fictional works that have a great deal of truth mixed in with them. This style of writing and certain aspects of the book are the topics of this reflective paper.

“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood.” (Portis 11) And many people still do not imagine that a story like that is even close to being realistic. Even though, True Grit is fictional; it seemed real as the reader saw Mattie Ross came of age. Coming of age is the transition from youth to adulthood. Throughout the novel, True Grit, the protagonist, Mattie Ross, develops courage, common sense, and bravery as she comes of age from her experience of hunting down the man who murdered her father. The fourteen-year-old faced many challenges that marked the growth of her maturity.

War can be a stressful and an intimidating experience that in one way or another ultimately changes one’s life and behavior negatively. In the novel, “Three Day Road”, by Joseph Boyden, he shows readers the destruction of the war in reference to the main characters, Xavier and Elijah. Joseph Boyden effectively illustrates the journey one goes through and the changes they encounter both physically and spiritually during the duration of the war. War changes everyone physically as well as internally and especially Elijah who within himself is pressured to change his identity, develop an unstoppable obsession with killing, and get absorbed by a drug called morphine. Elijah undergoes many changes at a fast rate that quickly transforms into

The section that I read from the book The Wednesday War made me feel really sorrowful for many reasons. One example is because since Doug pulled the horrible prank on the teachers he has been treated like he treated

The movie’s main theme tends to contrast two groups of people in the society. One group consists of people who come from the rural areas while the other group is that of people from the urban setting. The social norm of the people in the rural areas is based on simplicity and illiteracy. The story revolves around the murder of one of The Ward Brothers. The death of William occurs and his brother Delbert is accused of killing him. Delbert denies the allegations but before he is set free he is taken into custody and made to sign some forms.