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    Coming Of Age Essay

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    young adult through maturity which is called puberty. A child who grows older and turns into a young adult is often referred as “Coming Of Age.” Although, coming of age is an important twist in other people’s life where they tend to run into challenging courses into becoming better adults. This essay will talk more about what a person have to go through while they are coming of age which include challenges, choices and responsibility. First, going through

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    in America develops into a successful adult heavily reflects the way the adults in their life influenced them. This directly relates to the way adults in Holden’s life affected him by either bonding with or discarding him. Throughout Holden’s journey in The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger illustrates the importance of adults’ relationships with teenagers. Adults must establish a close presence in teenangers’ lives in order to properly guide them into the adult world. Holden’s parents display the dire

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    are put in certain adult-like situations. Without mature role models to look up to, children turn to other children for leadership. Additionally, when given the chance children would rather play around than do manual labor. Lastly, children stray to savagery without rules or social boundaries. Therefore, Goulding effectively portrayed the attitudes of adolescents which shaped the meaning of the book as a whole. When children are without adult authority, they look for an adult-like person for leadership

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    affecting Gen Y's adult years more than people are realizing, as it potentially leads to psychological problems, wrong decisions, and even alters social interactions with others. Studies show that bullied teens further face psychological distress in adulthood. “Fosse and Holen reported from a retrospective investigation that almost half (46 %) of the patients from an adult psychiatric outpatient clinic in Norway reported to have been bullied in childhood”(Source 3). Nearly half of the adults interviewed

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    Personal Timeline The early years of my adulthood were as transformative as the textbooks and articles explain. In just a few short years everything from my friends to my worldview changed. In adolescence, I was “the good Christian girl.” My faith was a core part of my identity. Most of my close friends were either from church or from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization at my high school. I wasn’t “popular”, but I had plenty of friends. I didn’t smoke, drink, or take anything stronger

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    many rebels in the history of literature. Holden is a 16-year-old boy that failed yet another school. He travels to New York just before Christmas to have one last adventure before coming to terms with his reality. He criticizes the phoniness of the adult world and attempts to escape the corruption that comes with it. Since the beginning of the novel, Holden’s brother Allie represents untouched innocence, which Holden idealizes. Holden wants his innocence and the innocence of others to also remain untouched

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    Childhood: a time when kids are the purest and hidden from the dangers of the adult hood. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye the main character, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield faces many challenges over the course of a long weekend in which he adulterates the innocence he tries so hard to hold on to. After losing his younger brother to illness, Holden finds himself alienating the world around him and pushing people that he loves, and that love him away. The novel is set in a cold and dour

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    adolescence and full-fledged adulthood. The age range for this group is approximately 18-25 years old. Emerging adults are not fully ready to take on adult responsibilities, but are expected to step up from childhood. This allows for new experiences, enrolling into college, understanding one’s own sexual identity, and to seek out what future they want for themself. Most emerging adults will move out from their parents home to get their own apartment, dorm, or house and will usually have roommates

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    bridge between childhood and adulthood. It's that next step to becoming independent adult. First apartment, first job, first paycheck, and even insignificant things like the first meal you cook for yourself, first real-world date, etc. Suddenly, you're not a kid anymore. you'll go from your simple part-time job to a real career in a matter of four or five years (and pay taxes, too). At some point, you'll look at the adults around you and think, "I might be closer to them than to being a teenager”. But

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    Symbols and Their Effects on the Characters of A Separate Peace In the novel A Separate Peace, the tree is the primary symbol used to describe the hardships, adventure, and danger of the lives of the characters. While the tree is not the only symbol used by Knowles, it is the one that Gene spends most of his time reflecting on. To Gene, the tree is “tremendous” and “a steely black steeple.” But for Finny, the tree symbolizes his downfall and eventually his death. By the end of the novel, the tree

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