Poetry Analysis

" Young ", by Anne Sexton symbolizes coming of age through using metaphors to show that you can grow up faster than you think. This quote shows personification to show the girls wonder at the world as a result of being a child. " The wise stars bedding over me." She is saying that she believes the stars have great wisdom having existed. It shows that the speaker is still young and has an avid imagination. The next quote uses metaphors to show that she is still young and believes in her mind. " and thought god could really see the heat and the painted light. " This quote shows how much of an imagination she still has was she is young. It connects to coming of age through her having not grown up yet and thinking child things. All in all, " Young ", by Anna Sexton tells a story of a girl looking back on her life, reminiscing about how fast her life went by.

" The Red Dress " Coming of age paragraph

I think that the main characters coming of age moment does not really happen until the end when she realizes that she should try to love and understand her mother a little bit more. " I understood what a mysterious and oppressive obligation I had, to be happy, and how I had almost failed it, and would likely to fail it, every time, and she would not know." She only feels good about her life when she is doing something that every other girl would do at some point, so when it happens for her, she feels normal. " I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible. "

M.E.A.T post

I think that shaving is not just about shaving and more about the young moving on in life and the old having to stay behind and get taken care of. " The cup was much older than Barry. A pattern of faint translucent cracks, fine as a web, had worked itself haphazardly, invisibly almost, through the white glaze." This quote shows that Barry's father is growing old as compared to his shaving mug. His mug has cracks in it, like how his father is growing weak. " There were water shaped rust stains, brown as chocolate, on the surface of the blade. Barry removed it, throwing it in the wastebin." This quote shows that the old is stepping aside for the new. His father is letting him take over in his stead. All in all, I think this book is more about the young succeeding the old and the old letting the new generation take over.

A Coming of Age

In traditional Aborigine culture, the entrance to male adolescence is marked by the " walkabout". Only males participate in this ritual, at around 15 or 16. So male teenagers have to go out into the wild and survive alone, away from his village, for one year. There, he will need to use the hunting, tracking, and survival skills he learned from his elders in order to succeed. If a the chosen teenager chooses not to participate or fails at the task, he will be placed in a low part of society. Whereas if he succeeds, the teenager will be placed into a much higher part of the village and be guaranteed a spot for a high ranking individual. I can honestly not think about anything in our culture that can be compared to something like this. No one is really expected to go out into the wild wood for a year and survive on their own. We just don't work like that.

Year Long Essential Question

Obstacles can change a persons identity in many ways. One example is that if you grew up living a cushy life and had to suddenly defend yourself, you probably would not do so well. Whereas if you had led a tough life, you might know how to handle the situation. One big obstacle I have to deal with on a daily basis is math. I was never any good at math of all kinds and I am still not.
I work to overcome this obstacle by studying and doing my homework so I can understand the material better. Depending on the type of environment you were raised in, your personality could be very different than what it would be had you been raised some where else, under different circumstances. All in all, it just depends where and how you were raised.

Words by which I live

" I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all." - Coco Chanel
This is a quote that I believe in very much which is, don't let other peoples opinions and comments affect the way you act or do things. Over the years of my life, I have chosen to follow this motto as it lets me do the things I find joy in and keep my personality intact. I won't be affected by the way you think me, and I won't care what you think. It's a simple and, in my experience, a very effective philosophy.