Although good health is generally the norm in emerging adulthood, “low birthrate, under-nutrition in infancy and rapid weight gain in early childhood tend to result in shorter height, reduced body-functioning and higher risks of disease (Berger, 2014, p. 394). Fertility is still an optimal level as it always was, however families are being started almost a decade later than they used to. Emerging adults are riskier and have more accidents, however, due to their overall good healthy, they are usually
innocence and the brutality of adulthood is long and confusing, often resulting in a loss of self identity. Children always look towards the future with great anticipation; however, many adults reminisce about their childhoods. As a child, the thought is that growing up cannot come soon enough; one cannot appreciate the blissful innocence of childhood until it has passed. The novel The Catcher in the Rye explores the complex and often incomprehensible transition to adulthood through the experiences of
Each stage has a goal to be achieved to develop a healthy personality from infancy to late adulthood; an upset in one stage may lead to not being able to perform successfully in the next stage. The theories stages are as follows, Stage 1: Infancy, 0-2
In J. D Salinger’s, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield, the protagonist, is a 16-year-old boy who has been kicked out of three schools and is being expelled from Pencey Prep, a private school because he is flunking four out of five subjects. Holden decides to leave school three days early because he is depressed after he gets into a fight with his roommate, Stradlater. Holden does not decide to go back home instead he chooses to stay in New York and hang around until the letter is sent to his house
and his experiences represent various aspects of being an adult. He tries to act grown-up and engage in adult life, but at the same time he resists it and tries to hold onto the way things are. Salinger explores the image of adulthood using symbols. Symbols of adulthood hold for Holden a certain longing and resentment as he struggles with the turmoil of adolescence. Salinger uses prostitution as a symbol for Holden’s yearning for intimacy and maturity. One night when he is arriving back at
The Catcher in the Rye, a novel written by J.D. Salinger, follows the short journey in which a teenage boy is coming to terms with his encroaching adulthood. Holden, the main character, has been kicked out of a private school for the third time. In New York, he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Holden is reluctant to act on the obvious solution of returning home and feels discombobulation towards the consequences he might have to face. He reflects on the death of his brother and struggles
down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it-the same night, as a matter of fact” (Salinger). He is slowly losing his innocence, and while he hates to admit it, Holden’s constant thoughts about sexuality is a sign of adulthood. To him, one should only have sex with someone they truly love. Holden is almost proud of himself for having such a morally correct view of sex. This is why he is so riled when he discovers that Stradlater had sex with Jane Gallagher. Holden realized
to a variety of factors, including career commitment, but also due to a busy family and declining knees. Again, I diverge a bit from Super’s theory in that I found new forms of exercise I would not have considered in earlier life stages. Middle Adulthood
Wake Up America As we age, our lives are divided into stages with inescapable hardships. The most difficult of these stages has proven to be adolescence and young adulthood, the years in which our personalities are defined. This juncture is the pinnacle of maturation, however, it is gradually becoming a plateau wherein inactivity is most prevalent. It is indisputable that American children and young adults alike are lingering in their youth for far too long. Many in their teens and twenties are
in all places at one time and time does not exist. His belief states that time is an illusion, and past, present, and future are all a one thing. He sees the world similar to a river, because every moment, including the childhood, early adulthood, and late adulthood is separated by shadows not by reality. Siddhartha tries to listen to the voices of the river and by the end, he feels extremely absorbed and listens perfectly. Eventually, the voices come to him into just a single concept of ‘Om’, in which