Jesse Vs Agnus

In old age many of the dying reflect on their choices, choosing to take solace in their

Signs of aging will start to show. For some it might be a concern as they might have health worries due to age. This is the time that they might become a grandparent, this will boost their self- esteem. The individual might be coming to terms with dying or may have already have accepted the fact of death.

Society is big on staying and looking young. People are constantly working out, watching what they eat, and getting surgeries such as botox and breast augmentation. Our society is too concerned on looking youthful. Morrie had aging in better perspective, "The young are not wise, they have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy… It's very simple. As you grow you learn more. If you'd stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, it's growth." Aging is more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die and that you live a better life because of it.

In the passage, “The Pod”, Jesse’s feelings change throughout the text. This makes Jesse caring. I say this because in the beginning of the text, Jesse wanted to get out of the house. He kept on complaining in his head about Pete’s long talks about fish and also how pity everyone looked at him since his legs are fractured. But then, as he sees the dolphin on shore and decideds to help him, he thinks back at one of Pete’s speeches about a dolphin he saved and how it was acting like the dolphin Jesse was saving. And after that, he decided to go home because his family could be worring about him. This shows that he is now caring because in the beinning, he could careless if his family was worried about him.

A different viewpoint of death and dying is seen in adulthood as the reality of their own

Jesse’s life exemplifies the tragedy and the problem of moral knowledge. In our lives we rank the communities we are a part of. Undeniably, our family ranks high atop our list. The convictions that were reinforced during Jesse’s childhood were unlikely to waver as he grew older. In our epistemic situation as humans, we are terrible at achieving genuine knowledge in the objective world. Having beliefs does not indicate legitimate knowledge. Everything we know could be wildly wrong, but Jesse was obviously blind to this as a child. All he had access to was the outside world- his father and his mother, who had instilled in him the belief that blacks were merely a cancer to society. How could these beliefs possibly be wrong if those he held most dear, his family, and the entire community, had taught him this?

In the novel Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, the character Jesse had to show (tremendous) courage. Jesse was a 10 year old boy who lived in a small town in Virginia, called Lark Creek. He made friends with a girl named Leslie, who pushed him to be the most courageous boy he could be.

In similarity to manifest destiny, Jesse aspires to extend his landholding and furthermore be in

Gail Sheehy has written a new way of thinking about the aging process. She uses ideas from Erickson’s psychosocial theory of the life cycle and creates new ways of mastering each stage of adulthood. Sheehy organizes her stages in age cohorts in which each cohort has lived through the same events even though they may have had different experiences. By understanding how others like ourselves have dealt with again concerns, we are better able to understand our own lives.

Morrie thinks that if you don't age you don't live your life to potential. Aging shows that you have experienced life. People are scared of aging. they don't want to be in pain or have to depend on others to do things for them or get wrinkly. I'm not scared of aging. I don't lime the idea of it but I accept that its going to come. Morrie accepted aging and he's okay with it. he thinks its him growing. "As you grow, you learn more" The older you are, the smarter you are. Old people have experienced life. Morrie thinks that people who wish they were young again have unfulfilled lives. Aging isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. You just need to know how to deal with it and accept it.

Late adulthood is a time many people tend to suppress in their minds. Late adulthood is often considered a time of physical and mental decline, but in reality for many older adults it is a time of mental and spiritual growth. During late adulthood, people tend to start reflecting on their lives and what is really important. During younger ages, people tend to focus on things that may not matter in the future, and spend time worrying about things that are unimportant. Through interviewing older adults, younger people can learn several important life lessons and begin to appreciate the things that really matter in life.

Once an adult reaches retirement, they begin to slow down, if they have not already, and reflect upon a long life lived. They are at the mercy of many decades worth of memories, some good and some bad. The elder will feel a sense of wellbeing if they are satisfied with their life. This satisfaction roots itself in accomplishment. Humans usually want to undertake many things in their lives. Some are able to attain these and others are not. Those that do achieve their goals are filled with a sense of gratification. Arlene Handler says that Erikson calls this “integrity” (The Developmental Stages of Erik Erikson, 2002 (revised 2009)). This also allows for a quiet acceptance of death. People who accept death as inevitable do so with grace and ease. They look at their life and see an adventure with hills and valleys, but valleys that they were able to climb out of with might and determination. Erikson thought this to be remarkable and was amazed by elderly people’s resiliency. He found that the strength at this stage was wisdom and that all the experiences

Getting old and aging are things that have become difficult points for many and despite

expressed great sorrowed because he lost his father but we don’t know exactly what happened to him . I think the father died in an airplane accident. Thats why he never came back to them. Jesse is feeling bad because he couldn’t spend time with him and do the things father and son normally do.

Finally, if a person dies at a young age they don’t get to experience as many things. With dying young there comes a loss of many experiences that life had in store. Life is full of experiences and when people die at a young age they sometimes don’t get to experience as many things. It’s quite an accomplishment to live for decades to watch the world change from how you knew it to how it is now. All the evolving the world does especially with technology and the job types and so on.