Success leads to a sense of capability, while failure results in feelings of inferiority.| Adolescence|12 to 18 years|Identity vs. Role Confusion |Teenagers need to progress a sense of self and personal individuality. Achievement of this leads to a capability to stay true to yourself, and failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self.| Young Adulthood|19 to 40 years|Intimacy vs. Isolation|Young adults need to form cherished, loving relationships with other people. If you succeed in this you form strong relationships and failure results in loneliness and isolation.| Middle Adulthood|40 to 65 years|Generatively vs. Stagnation |Adults need to produce and cherish things that will outlive them, usually by having children or creating a progressive modification that benefits other people. Completion of this leads to the feelings of effectiveness and accomplishment, while failure results in shallow involvement in the world.| Maturity |60 to death |Ego
It's not till the end of the book when Kamala and Siddarthas son come into the picture and he finally suffers by losing them both. Siddartha needed to loose love in order to find enlightenment. Through love SIddartha finds his way to englightenment. All the time he had spent with kamala, and learning the art of love from Kalmala, made him start loving her. Siddartha did not beleive that he could or that he should love if he wanted to find englightenment so he left the village and continued on his own.
The process of growing up and coming of age comes with the loss of innocence. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the theme of innocence and protecting it, is seen through the actions of the protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Holden is stuck in the awkward stage between childhood and adulthood. He often sees himself as a protector of the innocent, however he still holds innocence and longs for it himself. That is why, through Salinger’s work, we see the theme of innocence develop through Holden’s desires, fantasies and actions.
“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.
Holden, the Mature Man Throughout J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, the main character, searches for an impractical ideal-- to cling onto his childhood and his innocence. Believing that children are pure and that all grown-ups are “phonies,” Holden’s quest is to preserve childhood within himself and children around him. Placing symbols to stress Holden’s immaturity and impossible ideal, Salinger illustrates his unrealistic goals. Although Holden remains immature for the majority of the novel, as the story progresses, Holden becomes a new person and discovers his true self.
The values of the main characters Mr. and Mrs. Odone were evident in the movie as love, hardworking and perseverance. These are the values the movie wishes us to see. The parents completely disregarded what there own child would want. It was what they felt he wanted. The boy may have wanted an end to his suffering.
Young Adulthood 19-40 years Intimacy vs. Isolation Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people. Success leads to strong relationships, while failure results in loneliness and isolation. Middle Adulthood 40-65 years Generativity vs. Stagnation Adults need to create or nurture things that will outlast them, often by having children or creating a positive change that benefits other people. Success leads to feelings of usefulness and accomplishment, while failure results in shallow involvement in the world.
Morrie deteaches himself so that he can accept these predicaments in his life and so that he will be able to embrace his deathe easier since he’s well aware that it’s approaching. A quote Morrie constantly refers is to “Love each other or die”. He stresses this quote and major theme in the novel because he feels that an abundance of love and compassion is the highest sense of fulfillment that one can experience; especially because Morrie had such a significant lack of both love and compassion throughout his childhood. Love is so crucial to Morrie as he is nearing his final days of life because he feels that without the care of those who love him, he would perish. Morrie is not afraid of dying, however
This is used to help the readers understand how the boy is feeling about turning the ‘first big number’. This stanza is particularly effective through the use of the listing of diseases and the simile which evokes the feeling of sickness. This shows the boy is reluctant to turn ten and emphasises his anxiousness. Billy Collins shows us that the narrator loved being younger through the contrasts of the past and present using flashbacks. Contrast is shown as he uses words ‘back then’ which refers to his
How we love our parents or how our parents love us will in some way define the people we mature in to as humans. Author Aaron P. Turner believes that “contributing to their children’s development of perceive acceptance, Parents may contribute to their child positive and negative psychological adjustment.”(185) “Aaron and his colleagues conclude that one important function of perceived acceptance is a contribution to a lasting sense of being unconditionally loved.” (189) this means that children who do not get the acceptance that they seek from their parents, can constitute negative results or views of one ’s self and to others. Research has demonstrated that children with low levels of acceptance are associated with depression, anxiety, and loneliness. The world will continue to be in turmoil because we have so many children and adults that are products of this syndrome. Meaning people tend to loose in site of who they really are just to be accepted by a person.