How people see the world can be very different. Even within an individual mind, opinions change and perspectives shift that is just apart of life. A person’s ability to see things in other ways, and from other’s views is an ability that must be learned. No one is born with this power, and acquiring this skill is an important milestone in a person’s life. Coming-of-age involves recognising different perspectives.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout is an example of a character whose coming-of-age process involves gaining a different perspective. In the beginning of the story Scout believes that “a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and cats he could …show more content…
In dobbs’ article he states that “ A love of novelty leads directly to useful experience”. What he means is not that loving trinkets leads to success, he means that the love of the new and the changing gives an individual knowledge that they would not have obtained other wise. The teenage years could be considered a trial by fire, but it is likely the most effective way to gain experience. This newly gained experience can be used later in life in other useful applications that can assist the individual. Dobbs also says that “The adaptive-adolescent story- cast the teen less as a rough draft than as an exquisitely sensitive, highly adaptive creature wired almost perfectly for the job of moving from the safety of home into the complicated outside world”. This adaptivity allows a person to change, and knowledge comes from experimentation and change. This experimentation can often lead to useful experience that a person can draw from later in life. When a person gains this experience that they can draw from later it is a direct advantage over those who have not, making them smarter and more …show more content…
*Life is a cruel thing. At the beginning of this year I was understandably nervous, as I always am, but this time my worries were for nothing. For the first month of the year all was right with the world, and then it went to hell. What was the cause of this dramatic shift may I ask? Well the last thing someone would expect I guess, it was love. It was a Romeo & Rosaline type story. Ended the same way too, except I did not die so that is good. In this story, however, there was no Juliet to make me “better”. It is an odd feeling, being willing to give up everything for a person, and knowing they would not do the same. I was not sure that I wanted to write this, I feared that it to be to emotionally charge. However, when I was in the library writing this there was a picture of her on the opposite wall looking back at me, and I took that as a message. I guess everyone was a story like this, but this one is mine. Before this event I was cold, and trying to make myself more than Human, I was trying to become an unfeeling robot set in logic. I learned that logic is overrated and sometimes I need to just go with it. Unfortunately I learned this too late, and I still struggle carrying it out. This lesson did not clearly sink in until the Romeo & Juliet unit in which Romeo was in a similar situation. So thanks to Mrs. Lakly for the lesson that I will teach to my children, so when they come-of-age they will
In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout is an example of a character whose coming-of-age process involves gaining a different perspective. In the beginning of the story Scout believes that “a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and cats he could …show more content…
In dobbs’ article he states that “ A love of novelty leads directly to useful experience”. What he means is not that loving trinkets leads to success, he means that the love of the new and the changing gives an individual knowledge that they would not have obtained other wise. The teenage years could be considered a trial by fire, but it is likely the most effective way to gain experience. This newly gained experience can be used later in life in other useful applications that can assist the individual. Dobbs also says that “The adaptive-adolescent story- cast the teen less as a rough draft than as an exquisitely sensitive, highly adaptive creature wired almost perfectly for the job of moving from the safety of home into the complicated outside world”. This adaptivity allows a person to change, and knowledge comes from experimentation and change. This experimentation can often lead to useful experience that a person can draw from later in life. When a person gains this experience that they can draw from later it is a direct advantage over those who have not, making them smarter and more …show more content…
*Life is a cruel thing. At the beginning of this year I was understandably nervous, as I always am, but this time my worries were for nothing. For the first month of the year all was right with the world, and then it went to hell. What was the cause of this dramatic shift may I ask? Well the last thing someone would expect I guess, it was love. It was a Romeo & Rosaline type story. Ended the same way too, except I did not die so that is good. In this story, however, there was no Juliet to make me “better”. It is an odd feeling, being willing to give up everything for a person, and knowing they would not do the same. I was not sure that I wanted to write this, I feared that it to be to emotionally charge. However, when I was in the library writing this there was a picture of her on the opposite wall looking back at me, and I took that as a message. I guess everyone was a story like this, but this one is mine. Before this event I was cold, and trying to make myself more than Human, I was trying to become an unfeeling robot set in logic. I learned that logic is overrated and sometimes I need to just go with it. Unfortunately I learned this too late, and I still struggle carrying it out. This lesson did not clearly sink in until the Romeo & Juliet unit in which Romeo was in a similar situation. So thanks to Mrs. Lakly for the lesson that I will teach to my children, so when they come-of-age they will