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She realizes that the person she was as she is growing up is not who she must become as a mature youth and adult. She envisions a good life for herself and accepts that she has every right to live that life she desires. Though the Walls parents have done many wrongs to Jeannette there is one life lesson that they have instilled into her. They have empowered Jeannette with the energy and hunger to have the best education that she can obtain. ” I’ve always believed in the value of a good education” (Walls 265).

There comes a point in one’s life when they must recognize the hardships placed upon them, and instead of being ignorant of those hardships, they must confront them head-on. In “Marigolds”, a short story by Eugenia Collier, the main protagonist, Lizabeth, encounters various struggles that come with living in a poor town in rural Maryland during the Depression, allowing her to learn more about growing up and accepting reality with all its flaws. Lizabeth is a 14-year-old girl who feels a conflict between her inner child and her inner woman, as she is unable to do anything that satisfies both sides of her. She feels too old to be a child, yet too young to be a

Joyce Carol Oates intrigues readers in her fictional piece “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by examining the life of a fifteen year old girl. She is beautiful, and her name is Connie. Oates lets the reader know that “everything about her [Connie] had two sides to it, one for home, and one for anywhere but home (27). When Connie goes out, she acts and dresses more mature than she probably should. However, when she is at home, she spends the majority of her time absorbed with daydreams “about the boys she met”(28). This daydreaming behavior is observable to the reader throughout the story. From theories about dreams, theories about

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride

The short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by Tillie Olsen is a touching narration of a mother trying to understand and at the same time justifying her daughter’s conduct. Frye interprets the story as a “meditation of a mother reconstructing her daughter’s past in an attempt to express present behavior” (Frye 287). An unnamed person has brought attention and concern to her mother expressing, “‘She’s a youngster who needs help and whom I’m deeply interested in helping’” (Olsen 290). Emily is a nineteen-year-old complex girl who is atypical, both physically and in personality.

Alice has now passed through her by trail by fire, and she feels like an adult from the way others treat her as an individual. She declares “I am somebody: but her real maturation is not from how others respond to her, but from wise reflections on what it means to survivors the troubled times of adolescence.

“No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather.” This statement has more truth to it than one may think. In life, everybody reaches a rough point, a point where the light at the end of the tunnel seems dim, or even nonexistent. But overcoming this adversity is what builds character. Accepting and prevailing over life’s obstacles are what separate strong, independent-minded and forward-thinking people from those who give up and avoid their problems. Anne Moody, author of Coming of Age in Mississippi, lived a life of great struggle in which she overcame adversity with great efforts and a dedicated heart and mind.

In many cultures, coming of age is often celebrated because children become young adults who grasp self-awareness and accountability. At the same time, childhood is threatened by responsibility, which is dreaded because there is an unpredictable world of adulthood waiting with no guarantees. James Hurst demonstrates the journey of growing up through life experiences everyone goes through in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”. Throughout his use of mood, setting, and symbolism, Hurst shows that maturing requires reflecting on past experiences and losing innocence, which then can transform one’s outlook on life.

First of all, Jeannette is a hard worker, unlike her parents. For example, she got a job at thirteen years old, and after working hard on her school’s newspaper junior year, she went to New York her senior year at a public high school that offers internships instead of classes.

It is well known that the most awkward and difficult time in one’s life is adolescence. One is faced with the challenges of discovering who one is and what one wants out of life. One finds themselves frustrated and confused in this particular stage. They are mid way between a bridge. They have left childhood but have not yet reached adulthood. They struggle to find some sense of being and individuality in the world. They are on a quest to find themselves, and in search of a path that will lead them to future happiness. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” is a short story written by Joyce Oates .In her short story Oates shows how easily susceptible one is in this stage

An individual’s true identity will only develop once they have gone through experiences that force them to break away from societal and environmental expectations. However, this identity will not be formed until they have truly embraced and evaluated the experiences. Therefore, the development of an identity is a gradual learning process. This is evident in the film ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ directed by P.J. Hogan (1994). In this film, the protagonist, Muriel, has developed a fabricated bridal identity due to the societal pressures and expectations of the successful female. Muriel has created this identity in order to become acceptable to the patriarchal society. This notion of a fabricated identity is further demonstrated in the poem ‘Diving into

Silver Hill was an open facility, so Edie was able to maintain her eating habits and often went shopping with friends, charging hundreds of dollars of merchandise at almost each store she visited (Stein, 1982). When Edie’s weight dropped down to 90 pounds, Fuzzy had her transferred to Bloomingdale, a closed facility, in New York the fall of the same year (Stein, 1982). Because Edie was unable to manipulate her situation, she was able to become healthy during her time at Bloomingdale (Stein, 1982). However, when she neared her “graduation” from Bloomingdale when she was 20 years old and was granted a day pass to see if she could “handle [her]self outside,” she made love for the first time and became pregnant (Stein, 1982, p. 118). She was immediately given an abortion when she notified her doctors but was still permitted to leave Bloomingdale later that year (1963) and shortly thereafter decided to begin her newly independent life in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Stein, 1982).

When it comes to exploring the point of view of this story, you can ask yourself a few questions. “This story is told in the first person by a teenage girl. What are the strengths and limitations of such a narrator?” (cited in Clugston, 2010, sec. 8.2, para. 203) The second question would be; “Edie makes this statement in the opening of the last section of the story, “I didn’t figure out till years

Horney devoted herself to school and believing that, “If I couldn’t be pretty, I decided I would be smart.” When it was time to further her education and go to high school, Karen argued with her parents allow her to go. During these times it was uncommon for girls to continue onto high school and further their education. She had laid out an elaborate plan to educate

Throughout the early 20th century, women were often forced to suppress their thoughts and dreams in order to fill the roles that society thrusted upon them. Susan Glaspell and Sherwood Anderson both explored these sacrifices in their works to demonstrate and provide a social commentary on the predicaments that many women of that time faced. In Sherwood Anderson’s “Mother”, the titular character Emma Wright felt trapped in her boring life, and blamed herself for not following her dreams of going into theatre. The only real role she had was that of a mother, but her insecurity due to her failure to reach her dreams made it difficult for her to fulfill that role completely. In Anderson’s “Adventure”, Alice Hindman also felt trapped and unfulfilled,