At the beginning of the novel, Harper Lee presents Jem is a typical ten-year-old boy who is very close with his younger sister Scout. Throughout the course of the book, although all of the children grow up, it is Jem who matures the most as he and Scout ‘begin to part company.’ Jem matures in a number of ways throughout the novel for a variety of reasons. Firstly, as he gets older his attitudes begin to change as he wishes to spend more time alone and begins to leave Scout behind. Harper Lee ensures that the adults in the novel recognise this change, Calpurnia starts calling him ‘Mister Jem’ and Atticus tells Scout to let him have his space. Jem is also offered a piece of the ‘adult cake’ by Miss Maudie.
Maybe we didn’t have parallel stories but after reading a while I could understand the lives of the character a bit more. Darry, being the oldest, had to step up into the "adult world" and began with responsibilities that Sodapop and Ponyboy thought were no longer fun like he used to be. Soda pop being the middle one, had a bit of a more stable relation with both extremes of the family both the youngest and oldest, and even though he dropped out of school to help his family he still had that spark of youth that attracted lots of ladies which I personally admire. Lastly Pony boy, this kid, the youngest of the three, was in a few words naïve innocent and had a long way ahead in life. The relationship between these three was rocky, like most are in families with
In time, he became more eloquent with his silent repertoire than most people with spoken words. Later, the boy worked as a paperhanger, carpet-layer and a Pike’s Peak guide for tourists, but at night he studied acting, and worked before his mirror for hours producing startling effects on his face with grease paint. Finally, he struck out for Hollywood and, by 1912, he was playing occasional slapstick novelty roles. But, as for serious parts, he was told bluntly, “You’re too short to be paid attention to!” But the famous William S. “Bill” Hart encouraged the young man to concentrate on wordless eloquence with his face, which he did. Then the script of a picture required an actor to appear as if he had been physically malformed from birth.
Golding represents a shift of tone in the novel at the beginning of chapter 5, through the novels’ protagonist, Ralph, the chapter opens with Ralphs questioning of the life he currently knows compared to his previous one, he re-evaluates the situation suggesting his growth in maturity compared to the other boys. He recalls the journeying on the first day; ‘remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were a brighter childhood’ the way Golding displays Ralphs thought process leads us to believe that Ralph has become old before his time, he says ‘remembering’ and ‘childhood’ as if he has grown up too quickly and shed himself of his childhood nature by reminiscing on what used to be his childhood but suggests that he has now outgrown it. Moreover where Ralph thinks of the ‘first enthusiastic exploration’ it is described as being a ‘brighter childhood’ this implies that this life now is not longer bright as his childhood has come to an end. Ralphs newfound maturity and wiser sense, is also shown when he internally thinks of himself as a specialist in thought , Golding writes ‘Ralph was a specialist in thought now and could recognize thought in another’. Ralph is less narrow minded than he used to be, and see’s past piggy’s physical attributes and respects the fact that piggy, however physically impaired he is, is clever, and he acknowledges that and looks beyond himself now.
Penis growth starts a bit later but continues for a longer period. Some boys move through puberty quickly while others worry about their lack of development. These variations can be difficult for slow developers to handle. It's important that adults reassure them that their rate of development is not related to final physical potential. Adolescence for boys usually begins later than for girls and usually occurs around fourteen years of age.
Puberty is different for boys and girls. Females reach puberty sooner then males. Some challenges a female would face are; hips getting wider, menstration, produce eggs, acne, boobs growing, pubic hair, body odor, For the males some challenges are; voice change, produce sperm, muscles start to grow, pubic hair, body odor and acne. For both males and females they will start to devolp attitude becuase of wanting to be independent (an adult). They will also have to adjust to thier bodies which may cause them to be unfomfortable with themselves.
Along the course of the novel, Jem grows from a precocious young boy who drags his unwilling sister along as a co-conspirator to his nefarious schemes into a maturing young man who helps Scout better understand the problems and events that rage through their childhoods. Jem and Scout both learn to look at the good in human nature, as well as the bad, but it is Jem, not Scout, who faces the role of precursor to his more fragile-bodied and -minded younger sister, with only his father as anchor. In comparison to Scout’s still very childish perspective, Jem’s more mature understanding of the world, along with his pervading sense of justice, make themselves evident from as early as the book’s first chapter. Despite his apparent maturity, however, Jem still retains the innocence of a child, who views the world through eyes that have had little experience beyond the pages of his beloved sports magazines and adventure novels. Old enough to understand the ways of the world, he is yet unprepared to face the evils and prejudice that rove through the quiet Summer air.
“Manhood” by John Wain focuses on the slightly negative sides of pacing, even though the father may not be doing what he does to put pressure on his son. “The Happiest Days of Your Life” written by Penelope Lively, is telling us how childhood actually can be. “Growing up” is represented in both stories, as a period in your life where other people affect you and adjust you into being who you are, and in that way making every single person unique. I chose to analyse and compare these two texts, because they deal with the theme “growing up” in quite similar ways. E.g.
In Poem Three Spender writes about a childhood that is full of bullies he describes how the bullies affected the child. In Poem One Fanthorpe is describing a younger child, a child who had done “Something Very Wrong” and who doesn’t understand time. We can tell that this is a younger child because he has his preset times which he can use at home, such as “teatime”, but can’t understand real-time like “Half Past Two” because he hasn’t learnt how to. Lawrence describes the clock face in a very childish way “the little eye and two long legs for walking” the clock is personified this creates a vivid image as we would see it through the eyes of a child. The child does not see the clock as a way of telling the time, just as an animated face.
For this paper, I will be explaining a four year old development on the views of Erikson and Piaget. First off, we will start with Erik Erikson. Erikson has maintained that children grow in some kind of a fixed order. Instead of focusing on reasoning development, however, he was interested in how children mix and how this affects their sense of self. According to Erikson our self-identities are always changing, somewhat due to the communications in our daily lives, but mostly how those communications are observed by us as we mature and age.