Coming of age in books is much like coming of age in real life. Coming of age in books is very similar to coming of age in books. Yet I do not believe that growing up in books is the same as growing up in real life. We can learn a fair amount about growing up, but it is not the same.
Coming of age in books is very similar, yet drastically different to real life. Coming of age wrapped up in a statement is basically your adolescent years before you are of age, or in other words an adult. Coming of age in real life, you start to shape out who you want to become, you gain responsibility, you start to grow from your parents, and you start to become an adult. In books, the same thing happens in many ways. Characters start out the book as who they are, and end as a stronger person whether that be an increase in mental strength or physical, there is always that character that changes. However, I believe that in real life there are many little challenges that lead you to shape out who you are and there are many more people interfering in the process. In our school, there are 900 people. A lot of people know around 500 of those people that affect them. How many books have you read with 500 characters that all play a large part? Also, in many books the rising action leads to the climax and that’s when everything falls together from all the rising action. This climax is the final battle where the character is completing coming of age. Then the book ends. In real life, it takes more then just one big climax for a person to come of age. It is a slow process that can take years at a time, not pages. Sometimes, coming of age in books is rushed. Not just because you can’t have a book that takes 90 years to read, but just because the event that is surrounding the coming of age needs to stay interesting. I mean, if all a book said was, “Today, I gained responsibility.” No, you need to be able to see that increase. Though the increase happens slow in real life, the increase happens in book but it happens fast to help keep the reader hooked into the story. So really, coming of age in real life and coming of age in books includes all the same factors, but in books it is rushed and less people are involved then in real life. Very similar, yet drastically different.
I do not believe that stories paint a realistic picture of what it means to grow up. Yes, stories do start the picture, they have the back ground etched out, but stories can’t really complete the picture of growing up. In stories, it is normally just a segment of time that is up beat and has a lot of commotion going on. Every thing all happens and then boom it’s done. Sure, the character learned a lot of things in the story, but did they go on and use what they learned? What happened with the rest of their life? In a book, it often times spans over just under a year of the characters life. Can you take just one years worth of experience and then see what it is like to grow up? No, but you can start a good bak drop for what it means to grow up. Basically, stories give you a nice beginning of what it is to grow up, but don’t fully paint in the picture.
We can learn many things about growing up by reading stories. We can see many of the characters struggles with middle school and bullying, parents and friends, many things to do with growing up can be found in books. We can learn by reading these stories how to deal with issues we may encounter just like this. We can see what may go through our minds when growing up, what other people think when they are growing up. All of it is graphed out beautifully in stories.
Coming of age in books is very similar, yet drastically different to real life. Coming of age wrapped up in a statement is basically your adolescent years before you are of age, or in other words an adult. Coming of age in real life, you start to shape out who you want to become, you gain responsibility, you start to grow from your parents, and you start to become an adult. In books, the same thing happens in many ways. Characters start out the book as who they are, and end as a stronger person whether that be an increase in mental strength or physical, there is always that character that changes. However, I believe that in real life there are many little challenges that lead you to shape out who you are and there are many more people interfering in the process. In our school, there are 900 people. A lot of people know around 500 of those people that affect them. How many books have you read with 500 characters that all play a large part? Also, in many books the rising action leads to the climax and that’s when everything falls together from all the rising action. This climax is the final battle where the character is completing coming of age. Then the book ends. In real life, it takes more then just one big climax for a person to come of age. It is a slow process that can take years at a time, not pages. Sometimes, coming of age in books is rushed. Not just because you can’t have a book that takes 90 years to read, but just because the event that is surrounding the coming of age needs to stay interesting. I mean, if all a book said was, “Today, I gained responsibility.” No, you need to be able to see that increase. Though the increase happens slow in real life, the increase happens in book but it happens fast to help keep the reader hooked into the story. So really, coming of age in real life and coming of age in books includes all the same factors, but in books it is rushed and less people are involved then in real life. Very similar, yet drastically different.
I do not believe that stories paint a realistic picture of what it means to grow up. Yes, stories do start the picture, they have the back ground etched out, but stories can’t really complete the picture of growing up. In stories, it is normally just a segment of time that is up beat and has a lot of commotion going on. Every thing all happens and then boom it’s done. Sure, the character learned a lot of things in the story, but did they go on and use what they learned? What happened with the rest of their life? In a book, it often times spans over just under a year of the characters life. Can you take just one years worth of experience and then see what it is like to grow up? No, but you can start a good bak drop for what it means to grow up. Basically, stories give you a nice beginning of what it is to grow up, but don’t fully paint in the picture.
We can learn many things about growing up by reading stories. We can see many of the characters struggles with middle school and bullying, parents and friends, many things to do with growing up can be found in books. We can learn by reading these stories how to deal with issues we may encounter just like this. We can see what may go through our minds when growing up, what other people think when they are growing up. All of it is graphed out beautifully in stories.