The Young Girl - Original Writing

A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s

Her behavior had become odd and her attitude was unusual. The once timid, soft-spoken girl was now, to be blunt—a b*tch. The start of this tumultuous path was a relationship she had ended a few months prior to date. The guy was a complete control freak. He was manipulative, conniving, and downright degrading.

In Alice Munro short story “Boys and Girls” is about a young girl confused in life about herself maturing into a young women that takes place on a fox farm in Jubilee, Ontario, Canada with her parents and her younger brother. The character of the young girl that is not specified by a name in the story is struggling with the roles that are expected by her peers of a young women in the 1940’s. This young girl has been helping her father on the fox farm for many years in which brought so much of a joy in her life. As she gets older, as well and as her younger brother Laird grows older, she is starting to realize that her younger brother will be soon be taking over the roles and responsibility of taking care of the animals. Then her mother and grandmother points out the anticipations of her to start acting more like how a young women of her age should present themselves and this has great emotional effects on her, and at the end of the story she shows a final act of disobedience against her father, but it only shows the thing she resist the most, her maturing into a young women and becoming her own person.

In Hannah W. Foster’s, The Coquette, Eliza Wharton is portrayed as a woman of status, above average intelligence and education, with a flirtatious nature. Though the author does not cast her in an antagonistic light, her manner is painted as foolish, flippant to 18th century social conventions, and lacking in forethought. As such, The Coquette should be viewed as a literary warning for young women of the day, especially those who may have shared undesirable attributes with Eliza. It is the novel’s intent, by way of Eliza’s thoughts and actions, to discourage young women from pursuing a fleeting and non-virtuous lifestyle. Through the novel, Foster acts as a moral guide to young women by persuading them to obey social conventions like entering into dutiful marriage, refraining from political and public

In the book She’s Come Undone by author Wally Lamb, we travel on a journey with a young girl Dolores Prices, as she matures from early childhood to adulthood and all the terrible things that accompany her along her voyage. It was rather intriguing the Wally Lamb did such an excellent job of writing in a first person perceptive as a woman. He accredits his ability to his older sisters. Wally Lamb wrote this book to help emphasize one’s journey to self-discovery. This book’s theme heavily shows the loss of innocence and a coming of age story. Lamb was able to write in a way that many of us could relate to or may have found ourselves in similar situations. Regardless of Lamb’s purpose for writing this book, he was able to create a relatable

The famous leader Martin Luther King once said, “Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.” This quote pretty much summed up the way in which African Americans felt during the 1960’s. They had basically no meaning to life. They were irrelevant. Whites wanted no part in them. This was especially the case in the state of Mississippi. Anne Moody, writer of the autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi explains the importance of the civil rights movement in the state of Mississippi and the influence it had on her life and her viewpoint.

story of when she was once poor, homeless and the daughter of two drug addicted parents. The

Throughout the course of any being’s life, they are greatly influenced by the people and environment around them. In the coming of age fictional biography, She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, the reader follows the protagonist Delores Price throughout her journey in life from the age four to forty. Delores goes through many trials and tribulations in the course of her life, which include witnessing abuse and infidelity, experiencing rape, alienation, the deaths of her loved ones, suicidal tendencies and rebirth. Many of the experiences and traumas as well as deaths Delores witnessed and was subject to made her personality revolve around dysfunctional relationships and left her lost on how to approach life.

It all started with her. 12 year old Olivia Kenney. Almost 13 she told everyone. She was pure, full of joy then reality hit her like a load. Olivia lived in the same city all her life. But she got to view and experience all different types of lifestyles good and bad. Throughout these 12 years of her life she has not only viewed but experience the hardworking lifestyle, making money lifestyle, drug addict lifestyle, and the broke lifestyle. Olivia knew what it was like to live in three story beach houses, and she also knew what it was like to live in an apartment with not enough money to buy a hair tie. While everything else going on in her life she lived with her mom, her dad temporarily, her older brother, and her older sister. Then she had a stepsister who she

her life around to fit in with the crowd . She is soon exposed to drugs, sex and violence. It

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The beginning of this story isn’t about me. It’s about my sister and the decisions that she decided to make. Little did I know, her decisions affected me just as much as it did her.

The first girl I ever knew I loved was odd-eyed. She had one shining briste brown eye and one that was lazy and green. It was india green and vibrant, like full summer foliage, with flecks of gold hidden deep within the iris. It never fully look at you; indeed, it seemed to see beyond you. Mikaela was very pretty, but not in the conventional way. Odd-eyes aside, her front teeth were crooked so that one tooth was slightly pushed out and crossed over the other one. Her face was round, her cheeks full and pink, so that something about her looked vaguely Korean, although she wasn’t. Her nose was broad, with a distinct bump mid bridge. Her eyebrows were dark and thick, and if she let them grow they’d meet in the middle of her brow. Her skin was always sunkissed, a delicate brown, and soft like damp earth.

My mom got remarried the year before I started first grade. We moved from our small two bedroom home in Austin, MN to a four bedroom farmhouse that was built in the 1890’s. I grew up most of my childhood in the farmhouse. When I was in 9th grade my family started to build a house just a few feet away from the farmhouse. It took about 5 years to finish the project, with many setbacks along the way. It wasn’t until March of this year that I actually got to live in the beautiful house that my step-dad had put so many hours of hard work and time into. I feel spoiled to death living in this house especially when I think back to what it was like growing up in an old worn out farmhouse.

California has always been my home whether it was down south in San Diego where I grew up or up north in Monterey where I attended Santa Catalina’s summer camp with my sisters. My sisters have always been my best friends but Oksana especially. Oksana is only 2 years older than me but when we were young the best compliment someone could give us is by asking us if we were twins. The fact that my mom always dressed us the same could have contributed to the idea that we were twins. My sister was my best friend everywhere she went I was right behind her. I’ll always remember every vacation, adventure and road trip with her. Even those long road trips where we started in San Diego and ended in Monterey…those will be my favorite. I’ll never forget when I first went to Monterey I was about 8 years old. I was so nervous on the plane ride over there I could have puked. My mother rubbed my back and with her loving words calmed me down. My mother reminded me that my sister was going to be by my side no matter what. The moment when I first walked into the camp that will forever be the moment I remember so vividly especially it’s concrete floors. I remember on those hot summer days playing in the pool and the second I got out of the pool I ran as fast as I could back to my room because the concrete floor was burning my feet. When we arrived at the camp, the concrete floor didn’t bother me because I kept staring at all the girls hugging their parent’s goodbye and camp counselors carrying