Adulthood Everyone person at some point in life is initiated into adulthood. Some circumstances make a child enter into adulthood a little sooner than others. Entering into adulthood is a new world; everything is viewed in a different manner. Life doesn’t seem like a big happy fantasy without any problems anymore. I guess some could say that is when life is not joyful anymore. Regardless of the way adulthood is brought into someone’s life, it is something every person goes through. The daughter of Ben Jordan in the short story, Walker Brothers Cowboy, exemplifies the perspective of an eight year old that was already taken on adulthood. From her views of life, to thoughts about her father, it is very clear that the narrator does not have the
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My father chose to leave when I was in the fifth grade. I was in my dining room when I heard the crying of my mother and she informed me that it was going to be just my siblings and her for a while. My father has always been a very financially stable man, so without him in my life anymore, many things began to change. Before the divorce, I never knew what a car payment was, how much food cost, or that it was expensive to eat a restaurant. This initiation hit me when I was in the sixth grade and my mother took my siblings and me to eat at restaurant. I knew that my mother was low on money, but she still wanted us to have a treat. Instead of looking at the food I desired to eat that night, I looked at the prices so that I didn’t choose something that was expensive. That was when I knew that I was not the same person anymore. Sometimes life hits people a little quicker than what we would like. However, it must happen at some point. The narrator of Walker Brothers Cowboy, like me, started to examine life as an adult at a very young age. Even though situations occur like this on a daily basis, it only makes an individual stronger and better prepared for the next round. Every experience in life takes place for a reason, and it is up to the person going through the situation to realize it and take the good out of
My father chose to leave when I was in the fifth grade. I was in my dining room when I heard the crying of my mother and she informed me that it was going to be just my siblings and her for a while. My father has always been a very financially stable man, so without him in my life anymore, many things began to change. Before the divorce, I never knew what a car payment was, how much food cost, or that it was expensive to eat a restaurant. This initiation hit me when I was in the sixth grade and my mother took my siblings and me to eat at restaurant. I knew that my mother was low on money, but she still wanted us to have a treat. Instead of looking at the food I desired to eat that night, I looked at the prices so that I didn’t choose something that was expensive. That was when I knew that I was not the same person anymore. Sometimes life hits people a little quicker than what we would like. However, it must happen at some point. The narrator of Walker Brothers Cowboy, like me, started to examine life as an adult at a very young age. Even though situations occur like this on a daily basis, it only makes an individual stronger and better prepared for the next round. Every experience in life takes place for a reason, and it is up to the person going through the situation to realize it and take the good out of