Adult

Catcher in the Rye Holden finds himself wanting to save kids from growing up. Holden knows what it is like in the grown-up world because he lost his innocence early as a child. Holden creates different relationships with many characters whose virtues emphasize Holden’s need to preserve his innocence. These characters include the guy in the elevator and the prostitute, Phoebe, and Allie. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Salinger uses many accent characters to define Holden’s character.…

The Catcher in the Rye, a coming of age novel about a sixteen old rebellious boy named Holden, who feels that he is alienated by society, as he sees the whole society as phony and fake under its facade of friendliness. After failing all of his classes except for English in his prestigious school, he abandons his schooling in able to wander the streets of New York. What will Holden Caulfield discover in New York? How will he assess his morals? Why does he do the things that he do? My SSR novel…

Coming of age has multiple meanings, but all have a basic definition. Coming of age means growing up, no matter what anyone thinks becoming older is what coming of age means. The phrase growing up though, is what makes coming of age a complicated word. For anyone grows up they have higher expectations. People have more expectations for the growing human to uphold and follow. Like going from high school to middle school, the students are more challenged. Teachers and parents have more…

This article is about a cross-sectional study done on a diverse group of university students to study identity and the idea of agency in emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood is a theory created by JJ Arnett about as society became industrialized, the transition between the developmental periods of adolescence and adulthood became stretched. This middle period between the two, ranging from age 18 to mid-20’s, has been cited as a period not only for social development, but for identity and…

The short story “Doe Season” was written by David Michael Kaplan in 1985. Kaplan is considered to be a magic realist. Magic realism is a literary genre in which the story is realistic but it includes magical elements. “Doe Season” first appeared in his collection of short stories titled Comfort. This short story was chosen as one of the Best American Short Stories in 1985. He continued his work when he published his first novel called Skating in the Dark in 1991. He currently works Loyola…

Adolescence is thought of as a time of innocence where children can be carefree without worry. However, as time goes on, they learn more about the world around them, and that innocence deteriorates as the years go by. Golding has a more pessimistic philosophy regarding childhood innocence and the loss of that innocence. He portrays the loss of the boys’ innocence as terrible, yet inevitable. Lord of the Flies presents innocence as a beautiful lie, and with the loss of that innocence comes the…

In literature you have probably heard of a genre of Coming of Age Stories, where it's a story that centers on the protagonist's growth, most times youth into adulthood. In these types of stories the author likes to dramatize to enhance the story and its moral. One common thing that they do is to dramatize the moment when the teenager has to make that important decision that often lingers into adulthood. We see this happen in “The Bass, The river and Sheila Mant”, “A & P “, and “The Grave”…

The first issue of organizing and completing a heavy load of homework from college classes may look very different depending on which stage of maturity a person is in. First, the “Later Childhood” stage, I believe may depend on someone else such as a teacher or parent to give instruction or encouragement on how to tackle the work load and or homework. Without direction, in this stage a person may make choices that affect the ability to get the work done. For example, I may choose to spend time…

Innocence: we all have it, and, we all lose it. Weather it is the innocence of childhood, or the innocence of knowledge, we realize that what we once knew to be true is no longer the truth. Just a child’s day dream long forgotten. In this essay I will be discussing two different works. The first work will be Dante’s Inferno. Inferno is one of three books in the Divine Comedy trilogy written by Dante Alighieri. Inferno focus’ on Dante's journey through Inferno (a.k.a. Hell). The second work…

Transition is a persisting and central concept in youth sociology, which has helped researchers better understand the paradigms shifts and inequalities in the various aspects of life such as education, employment, culture and family-life. Due to an overwhelming focus on youth transition from education to work in the past decades, scholars have been able to trace patterns of inequalities amongst people from different walks of life, which suggests the availability of opportunities and the…