Young-adult fiction

Introduction In Bicycle Thieves and Turtles Can Fly, two young boys Bruno and Satellite play the central 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…

Growing up as a kid you have dream about what you want to do when you grow up: a princess, an astronaut, a rock star or a circus artist. Many of these childhood fantasies gets replaced by more realistic goals once we grow older, but some we want to achieve so badly that we don’t give up on them. This is the case in the short story “Dukwane’s Deliverance” from 2010, written by Neil Ramssorun. In this story the main protagonist realizes by overcoming hardship that you can’t give up on your dreams.…

her innocence. Although Phoebe may hear Holden say these words very often and could pick them up from him, he is still afraid she could see them somewhere and begin to say it carelessly. Holden achieves his innocence through Phoebe because she is so young and free that Holden wants to keep her that way forever. Especially when Phoebe rides the carousel in the end. Holden knows the carousel only moves in circles and not forward, symbolizing children not growing and staying innocent as they are.…

either way she needs something to cover her expenses while she s with her parents and figure where she may land. The social and emotional notion that young adults experience is probably the main element in shaping an adult life. Melissa wanted to learn to function without using parents as major source of comfort, security, direction. Melissa developed adult friendships that she hoped would continue outside of college. Per Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development, the impact of external…

twenty-year-old early adult. Matt currently has a girlfriend who also goes to Dordt College, however, he does not have any children. The interview was conducted in the lobby of North Hall at Dordt College, which provided the most privacy and an appropriate environment to conduct a forty-five minute interview. Prior to the beginning of the interview, I composed a list of two additional questions that were not on the given interview list to ask my twenty-year-old early adult subject. At this point…

to live in the past. However, White then writes that “peace and goodness and jollity” still exist upon the late, but even the rotation of the nouns allows him to express the duality. What to children is happiness, to adults is peace, and what to children is a chance to live, to adults is a chance to relive. Furthermore, he cites modern hindrances to…

In the movie Parenthood (1989), directed by Ron Howard deals with the various family issues in the Buckman’s household. The entire body of individuals born and living in Buckman’s family demonstrates to the humankind the difficulties and joys of the family. It is a movie that deals sensitively and hilariously with family life and the stages of human development. Gil Buckman is a suitable example of what describes Erikson’s stage of Generativity versus Stagnation in the middle Adulthood. This…

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…

a health nut to see the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle; we just have to have good eating habits and physical activity. It is easy to ignore the damage that one does to their body physically in their adolescence and early adulthood. College adults can partake in heavy drinking and smoking, not feeling long periods of a hangover or shortness of breath. However, depending on how often one does so, can result in devastating long term health issues. Diseases such as liver disease or diabetes…

The idea that teens should or should not be tried as adults, if they commit a felony has “stirred much opposition and controversy” over the years (Estudillo 3). A couple years ago, a 15 year old girl from Plymouth, Michigan was convicted because she and her boyfriend had plotted to kill her family so she could run away with her 23 year old, at the time, boyfriend. Roksana Sikorski, slit her brother’s throat and he woke their parents and their younger sister up with his screams. Michael Riveria…