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    role of the films. With non-professional actors in real locations, directors Vittorio De Sica and Bohman Ghobadi, show that the children trapped in socio-political conflicts often have a finer sensibility to challenge the hardships in life than most adults do. As they are not easily spared from any circumstances that would usually concern the society of grownup, they often forget their childhood and adapt themselves to adulthood too early. The Role of Bruno in Bicycle Thieves When Bruno enters…

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    The Catcher in the Rye introduces a troubled teenager, Holden Caulfield, who sees the adult world and growing negatively. Using tone, symbolism, and the meaning of the title to J.D Salinger shows the difficulty of growing into adulthood and having to deal with its complexities and the inability of preserving the innocence of a child. This is because Holden does not seem to want to join the phony adult world, and he tries to avoid it. He mentions he wants to live on farms and in New England…

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    Process Of Growing Up

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    process between being child and being an adult, there are certain behavior and attitudes that all mature adult acquire. Attaining these behavior and characteristic can only be done through life experience and learning from mistakes. The process of grown up may never fully absolute even as adults still learn and experience things that make them wiser…

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    Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden does not cope well with becoming an adult and moving on from the death of his little brother, Allie. He holds on tightly to the memories of his childhood and wishes that he could be a child forever. Holden does not want to grow up because he fears change and does not want to leave his childhood behind. Holden has a strong connection to Allie and does not want to become an adult because Allie will always be a child. He tells the reader, “What I did, I…

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    with the Arnett lifespan model, Guiney & Machado (2013) investigated among stratified age groups the ability to mentally decipher task goals before responding, respond physically to stimuli, and complete short term memory tasks. Among the young adults, they concluded that physical activity was shown to improve the structural integrity of the brain, which in turn allowed for improved cognitive functions in all three areas tested. Similarly, Hogan, Mata, & Carstensen investigated whether…

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    What does it mean to “come of age”? To come of age is to transition from being a child to becoming an adult; going through different major milestones/phases in life. You reach an age where you change your place in society. If you are 2 years old, you don’t go to school but when you are 5, you enter elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then you go off the university, then enter to active lifestyle where you learn to depend on yourself to survive. You gain more independency as…

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    Holden throughout the story is surrounded by adults and others around his age. Holden is mostly negative throughout the story besides when he is near children he because a whole new person. When Holden is in the museum and 2 children walk up to him and asks,”where the mummies were,(25.34)” this means…

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    Becoming an adult stops being fun after you turn 21, the next year you’ll be out of college and into the real world. But mostly, becoming an adult means being responsible. As we get older, change is inevitable, we become victims of the working class. Many of us have big dreams to be CEOs and CFOs and doctors and lawyers, but dreaming it and living it is different altogether. Not only do we have to manage our personal lives which might be hectic, taking care of your grandmother and a…

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    fly away and come back, which symbolises how not all change is permanent. Holden wants to preserve his childhood innocence, but at the same time he is growing up and is being ‘corrupted’ by the adult world. The ducks are a symbol that he can try to have both of these things at the same time: being both an adult and a child.e The lagoon itself is also a metaphor for this, as it constantly freezes and unfreezes, heralding change and at the same time a return to what it was before, like how the…

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    youth innocence and adulthood is long and perplexed, frequently revealing questions that can 't be answered. Amid the process of the adult world appears to be welcoming and free, yet just when we get to be individuals from a cold, real society can the delighted forgetfulness of adolescence be acknowledged and missed. The novel Catcher in the Rye investigates how adult life seems unpredictable and unimaginable to young people on the very edge of entering it. Through the hero Holden Caulfield,…

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