Young-adult fiction

There are many differences between adults and children. Adults are people who are old enough to live on their own and do many things by their own. Children are younger than adults. They have to live with adults and need many of adult’s help since they are only growing up. Children grow up to be an adult. Most of you would know that adults and children are very different from each other. However, what makes someone an adult? What are some special personalities the adults have? Today, I would like…

vote and sign legal documents at 18, and then can drink at 21. One thing they have not been told is when are they considered full adults in society; when should adolescents be considered adults? Adolescents should be considered adults at the age of 18, which means that they should have received all their rights by the age of 18. Teenagers have earned all of their adult responsibilities by the age of 18, except drinking. According to Edgar Snyder, a lawyer graduated from Pennsylvania…

especially maturation and independence, as it has little interactions with adult figures. Although…

enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind”(2007). In order to solve this problem of growing up too fast, adults should be able to participate in certain activities as well as take time to just be a kid again. Coloring with Crayola crayons is an activity that most kids love to do at some point in their childhood. Recently, this activity has skyrocketed, not in regards to the children industry, but for the adult side of the…

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…

Correlated 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…

The article Grow Up? Not So Fast by Lev Grossman is about a new life stage called the twixsters and why it is taking them so long to grow up unlike past generations. Six friends from Chicago go out at least three nights a week. They are all single, live in apartments, and jump from job to job. These six friends are all from the age of 24-28 years old. Thirty years ago by the age of 21 most women were married then by the age of 22 had a child. In this generation the age is 25 for marriage and…

The law states that an adolescent becomes an adult when they turn eighteen, but in reality anybody can become an adult at any time in their life. I experienced a life-altering event when I was six years old that has changed my life forever, and has made me mature quicker than most. Maturing and becoming an adult is an important moment in someone’s life because it shapes them into who they are and becomes a person’s identity. People may experience positive moments that have changed their lives…

Being a grown up in today’s world is expected of students by the time they are out of highschool. Everyone wants to be a successful adult when and after they graduate, and there are ways to ensure that. Kids need to realize how important individuality is, kind of like how the Transcendentalist of the 1800’s did. With this being said, they need to be socially active and interact with people, maybe through certain interests, and gain experience. This can be done in person or with technology, which…

Most teenagers as they grow older fantasize about becoming an adult because they will no longer be under their parents’ rules and restrictions, and have 100% control over their own lives and the decisions made. Often, the new adults realize the extreme amount of responsibility, self control, and smart decision making causing them to become overwhelmed. This overall cycle is usually associated with teenage adolescence. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is extremely…