Growing up is hard work. Along the way, emotional adults achieve the profound awareness that they do not know, far more than what they do know. In the reading “The Conjurer Ran Off With The Dish” written by Naguib Mahfouz. The story simply talks about a young boy’s innocence and how he needs parental guidance and protection. However, the young boy discovers life as he proceeds through places and experiences when his mother sends him on an errand to get some beans. Thus, when the boy comes back empty handed from the errand he is either threatened with or actually experiences physical retribution from his mother. In the article “Growing Up” by Chuck Rogers. He say’s that growing up requires us our accepting truths that the younger us was in denial.
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The young boy in the story was experiencing some difficult times every time he would go get the beans. I feel as though he was doing the right thing going back home after every incident to verify his mother on what had just took place. Honestly if I was the boy, I would have made up lies about what had happen so that I wouldn’t get into trouble. Even though he did not tell any lies the boy still seemed to find trouble with his mother. Roger claims “True grown-ups counsel without scolding, lead without showing off, and teach without preaching” (lines 22-23). With this statement grown-ups need to abide by it because, you cannot teach or train a child up in a way they prefer is right, and during the process they are yelling at them, beating their brains out. Trying to get the child to comprehend the method. In the story the mother say’s to the boy “I 'll give you another piaster but I 'll take it out of your money-box, and if you come back with an empty dish, I 'll break your head” (page 3 lines 11-13). That is no way to talk to a child. I understand the mother is upset but instead of yelling at him she should of went with the boy to show him how to get the beans, what to buy for the beans and plenty …show more content…
For instance the last moment when a guy had stolen his piaster, he took it upon himself to go a get one from his savings “I took a dish from the kitchen and a piaster from my savings and went off immediately to the seller of beans” (page 6 lines 18-19). He took responsibility into his own hands. Roger say’s “To grow is to replace fallacy with fact and resist too-good-to-be-true illusions in order to prevent too-horrible-to-endure consequences” (lines 27-28). The willingness to learn how to blend emotion with reason and make good decisions is a prerequisite for growth. To be a grown-up means living a principled life. They say accepting and liking oneself is a part of being a grown-up. Not that you don’t need to or want to change, but to appreciate what is good about yourself and to accept some of the inevitable limitations to which all of us are prone. Not to avoid self-improvement, but to avoid
The young boy in the story was experiencing some difficult times every time he would go get the beans. I feel as though he was doing the right thing going back home after every incident to verify his mother on what had just took place. Honestly if I was the boy, I would have made up lies about what had happen so that I wouldn’t get into trouble. Even though he did not tell any lies the boy still seemed to find trouble with his mother. Roger claims “True grown-ups counsel without scolding, lead without showing off, and teach without preaching” (lines 22-23). With this statement grown-ups need to abide by it because, you cannot teach or train a child up in a way they prefer is right, and during the process they are yelling at them, beating their brains out. Trying to get the child to comprehend the method. In the story the mother say’s to the boy “I 'll give you another piaster but I 'll take it out of your money-box, and if you come back with an empty dish, I 'll break your head” (page 3 lines 11-13). That is no way to talk to a child. I understand the mother is upset but instead of yelling at him she should of went with the boy to show him how to get the beans, what to buy for the beans and plenty …show more content…
For instance the last moment when a guy had stolen his piaster, he took it upon himself to go a get one from his savings “I took a dish from the kitchen and a piaster from my savings and went off immediately to the seller of beans” (page 6 lines 18-19). He took responsibility into his own hands. Roger say’s “To grow is to replace fallacy with fact and resist too-good-to-be-true illusions in order to prevent too-horrible-to-endure consequences” (lines 27-28). The willingness to learn how to blend emotion with reason and make good decisions is a prerequisite for growth. To be a grown-up means living a principled life. They say accepting and liking oneself is a part of being a grown-up. Not that you don’t need to or want to change, but to appreciate what is good about yourself and to accept some of the inevitable limitations to which all of us are prone. Not to avoid self-improvement, but to avoid