Maturity In Monkey's Paw

“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.’’

Maturity is commonly used word, but when asked what the word means many people simply shrug their shoulders. Maturity isn’t a word that has a clear definition. Being based primarily on one’s connotation, it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. Personally I picked this word up through context. However, upon doing a careful study of where this word originates and other’s connotation’s, I feel I’ve achieved a relatively good understanding. Webster claims the word to mean “based on slow careful consideration,” but I feel there is much more to this word than that.

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

Maturity may come at any age and time in a person’s life. One moment he or she may be a carefree child, and then suddenly realize that they have been transformed into a mature adult by a powerful and traumatic experience. An experience they will remember their whole lives. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the adolescence of Jem and Scout is threatened one fateful night by a dangerous man bent on taking their lives. After this startling experience, they were never the same again. As a result, they rapidly matured into adults. Similarly, young David Hayden, the narrator of Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, also encounters an equally traumatic event. He discovers that his uncle has been sexually assaulting

One time in the past where I exemplified maturity was in the final days on the France trip. My group had just finished eating dinner from a restaurant about 8 blocks away from the hostel. Each and every one of us were happy to be walking in the streets of France in such a beautiful night. However, when 3 of the other members in the group began to run, leaving me and

Maturity is depending on what happened in your life and stuff that made you stronger.Martin

Merriam-Webster defines maturity as “the quality or state of being mature”. But what does it mean to be mature and who defines it? Our laws define maturity as the age of adulthood---18. An article on Huffington Post written by author of “The Healer Trilogy,” Donna Labermeier, describes maturity as having forgiveness and compassion for yourself and others. Founder and president of Growing Leaders, an international non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders, defines maturity as making decisions based on character not feeling. Still others

Gaining maturity is something that happens over time. A “coming of age” occurs at a certain mentality, not a certain age. It’s the exposure to life’s experiences that makes the greatest impact to maturity; such as the experiences within an upbringing and decisions made. Maturity has minimal reliance on age.

The 2011 The Monkey’s Paw film version has a great, spooky atmosphere. But it could do with a bit of a change-up in the actors to make the atmosphere even more eerie; perhaps it would help to revamp the story by replacing some of the male actors with female ones.

The Monkey’s Paw Comparison and Contrast Alyssa Resch 10-6-14 A4 Language Arts Final Draft Comics, plays, audio books, etc. are all variations or adaptations of the original tale by W.W. Jacobs published in 1902. About 25 variations of “The Monkey’s Paw” are in film, television,or theatrical adaptations, 6 music variations, and 13 or more other adaptations making approximately 44 in total. There are novels lightly plagiarizing the century old story, TV show episodes based off the popular story, and also movies related to the favoured tale. Some novels I have picked up are “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King, “Loppi and Lappi” written in 1881, taken place in Estonia, and actually “The Monkey’s Paw” is based off the old story named “Arabian Nights” or “1001 Wishes”, which you know as the Disney-fied movie Aladdin. To list some television episodes for you would be Cartoon Networks “I am Weasel” featured an episode including a baboons paw, and also in the TV series “Ripping Yarns”, an episodes name is called “The Curse of the Claw”, and and “Are you Afraid of the Dark?”

Lastly, being Mature is a big part of “growing up”/ getting older. Your speaking manner, your respect and knowledge is all a part of being Mature. Although this category is hard to explain, it just means that you do what it told of you without complaining. Vocabulary is also a big part of being Mature. For example swearing is immature. Using synonyms for an easy word makes you sound more mature, and older people will respect you if you know what you're saying. Another part of being mature also includes your body. You’ll grow taller, your face will lose all of it’s baby fat, and your feet might grow bigger (lots of stuff will grow bigger that differs from boy to girls).

Maturity if often defined as wisdom, numerous experiences, or sophistication during particular events. Maturity can be considered the state of mind a person is in when making decisions, speaking, or simply the way they carry themselves throughout their life. Being mature is not related to a person’s age, but rather how they move throughout the world.

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.

A person’s age is only a number and a number should not define us, we should define it. Maturity does not depend on a person’s age. We can be twelve years old, know everything and experience a lot, but we could also be seventy years old , know nothing, and have very little experience with anything. As a seventh grader, I learned that I was more mature than most.

As we grow older, we face obstacles and situations that make us mature in countless ways. It’s important to mature because we’ll know how to deal with things the right way.