While we grow up we take certain risks that help us get through difficultly stages and that makes us see things differently. It's hard to see it from our perspective but when we get to a certain age we see all the changes we made in order to get to the point we are at. Herbert Otto claims, "Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. In other words, Otto believes that an individual start to grow up when he or she start to take risk on different aspects in life which causes the individual to mature. To support Otto's claim, we can relate to two stories one is by James Joyce "Araby" which tells the story of a boy that starts to get attracted to his friend sister,
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He thinks that he will end his adolescence by buying a gun, but that ends up making him gain commitment and responsibility. This story takes place in the 1930s on a rural farm in the South. It reflects the struggle that African American had in the South even after slavery was abolish. After Dave goes to Joe's store he comes back with the idea that Joe will sell him a gun for two dollars, while he was at dinner with his parents, the author mentions, "He did not want to mention money before his father. He would do much better by cornering his mother when she was alone" (105). In this quotation, we can see how Dave is immature, he is scare of the reaction his father might have towards his idea of owning a gun, he doesn't even want to mention anything in-front of his dad. One of Dave's smallest risk, was after he bought the gun he decides not to go back home since he didn't want to surrender the gun to his mom. The author states, "When his mother had tiptoed to his bedside late that night and demanded the gun, he had first played possum; then he had told her that the gun was hidden outdoors, that he would bring it to her in the morning. Now he lay turning it slowly in his hands. He broke it, took out the cartridges, felt them, and then put them back" (107). In this passage, Dave lies to his mom about not having the pistol he was
He thinks that he will end his adolescence by buying a gun, but that ends up making him gain commitment and responsibility. This story takes place in the 1930s on a rural farm in the South. It reflects the struggle that African American had in the South even after slavery was abolish. After Dave goes to Joe's store he comes back with the idea that Joe will sell him a gun for two dollars, while he was at dinner with his parents, the author mentions, "He did not want to mention money before his father. He would do much better by cornering his mother when she was alone" (105). In this quotation, we can see how Dave is immature, he is scare of the reaction his father might have towards his idea of owning a gun, he doesn't even want to mention anything in-front of his dad. One of Dave's smallest risk, was after he bought the gun he decides not to go back home since he didn't want to surrender the gun to his mom. The author states, "When his mother had tiptoed to his bedside late that night and demanded the gun, he had first played possum; then he had told her that the gun was hidden outdoors, that he would bring it to her in the morning. Now he lay turning it slowly in his hands. He broke it, took out the cartridges, felt them, and then put them back" (107). In this passage, Dave lies to his mom about not having the pistol he was