Young-adult fiction

being an adult. When we are adults, we dream about being a kid again. Being a child can be the best and the worst thing ever. It is scary because you have the whole world around you. Waiting to judge you. It is also the best because you have the whole world around you, in the palm of your hands, waiting for you to judge it. The world is also testing you to see how far in life you will go, to see how successful you will become, and to see how knowledgeable you are. When you are an adult you…

Firstly, we will take a broad look at the general consensus adult attitude towards not only adolescents themselves but the greatly negative attitudes directed towards adolescent speech choices and linguistic features commonly linked to adolescent use. As stated by Penelope Eckert (2003), this age group is the predominant…

have shown that it not only impacts older people, but also young children and young adults. During young children’s development to adulthood they are often at times exposed to technology such as iPad, phones and computers early in life. This constant exposure to those devices can affect their brains on a level that can rewire their thinking. That rewiring of the brain can cause their attention span and focus to be decreased. With adults as well as children, using the internet over a long period…

In modern society, adolescents cannot wait to mature and enjoy the perks of adulthood, but they are often unaware of what it costs to lose their innocence. Just like children in the real world, the boys from Lord of the Flies mature and lose their naivety, optimism, and other markers of their childlike mindset. Golding uses the boys as an example to convey his opinion of what really causes this loss of innocence. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, he shows that understanding the…

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…

Becoming an Adult Adulthood is the time in which a person becomes intellectually, emotionally, and physically capable of living life. It takes a lot of practice to grow up, and one may make many mistakes and face many consequences before he or she becomes an adult. “To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age”, by Samuel Johnson and “When I Was One-and-Twenty”, by A.E. Housman are both poems about a twenty one year old coming of age. Johnson describes the coming of age by using a twenty year old man…

film Lars and the Real Girl and T.C. Boyle’s story “Greasy Lake” illustrate this definition of maturity. In general, it is believed that adults…

fades into the realities of adulthood. However, the transition from childhood can be tough, one should not change into adulthood too fast, but value their equity. In J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” the fear, confusion, and loneliness of a young teenage boy is caught between his past while being afraid of his uncertain future. Some may keep a firm grasp on their past which only makes it more difficult to move forward in life. This is shown when Holden Caulfield reminisces on his dead…

from different walks of life, which suggests the availability of opportunities and the trajectories people thus take are stratified. (Wyn & Woodman, Chapter 5: Transitions in 'Youth and Generation: Rethinking change and inequality in the lives of young people', 2014) This essay aims to examine the changes that the Australian educational system…

believe that being an adult is all about how well you can hide the fact that you are still a kid. To others it 's about raising a family and having bills to pay. When you ask an adult what it is like to be in their shoes, they say "Don 't rush to grow up. Enjoy being a kid because once you are no longer a child you 're going to wish you were one again." According to most adults being an adult is not at all what it seems to be. Here 's what I think. If your road to becoming an adult is good,…