Destiny Pike What would it be like to be sixteen and have a child of your own to take care of? Well that's what Bobby has to deal with in the novel “The First Part Last” by Angela Johnson. He got his girlfriend Nia pregnant and now he has to take care of his new baby Feather without his girlfriends help or really anyones help. He has to stop being a kid and grow up, and i believe he does. In the novel there is a lot of things that are mentioned that are “symbols” these symbols all mean something but most of them mean Bobby's childhood and that's something Bobby has to get rid of, his childhood. First, Bobby has come of age by the end of the novel I believe. I feel like he has grown up. In the book, the symbols have shown he has
