Writing promt #2

How do parents and friends affect your coming of age?

In my opinion friends have a big impact on the person you become when you grow. The reason i say this is because if you have freinds that like to study and do good in school , then you get inspired to do good too, but if you have friends who smoke and get drunk, then you will most likely get peer pressured into smoking and drinking. Friends also have an impact on you because they are the people who inspire you to do how you do.
I think that family also has an impact on the way you act because your family tells you right from wrong. You're parents are the people that always inspire you do do good and because a successful person. You're family are also the people you usually care about most and love, losing a family member can put posotive or negative impacts on someones lives.
In my opinion family has more impact on you then your friends, the reason why i say this is because  family is always the people that stay by you no matter what your going through. As you grow up your friends may change but your family always stays the same. No matter what happens through out your life , your family are the people who do not change and stay with you.

Reading Responce Coming of Age

Moeez Akmal
Title: The outsiders
Author: S.E. Hinton

The book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a book about friendship. This book taught me multiple things and showed me a new way too look at my friends.
This book taught me many lessons but one main lesson it taught me was to always confess for your mistakes instead of hiding them. I say this because in this book Pony and Johnny ran away when the killed the kid from the Socs. In my opinion I think they should have stayed and confessed because then it would not lead to future events that got Johnny killed. Even though Johnny died as a hero, he lost his life from taking someone else’s.
I also like this book very much because I can relate it to the real world events. I can relate it because many people do not show what they feel because they feel like they  would get mocked on or teased. Through out the book Dally showed a tough and strong personality, but when Johnny and Pony went into the house on fire to save the kids , for the first time Dally was scared. He wasn’t scared of the fire itself but he was scared he might lose them. Dally showed he care by jumping into the house of fire after the kids. Johnny died without knowing how much people really cared for him. Dally loved Johnny, and the loss affected him deeply.
This book showed many symbolic and meaningful scenes. I think the most symbolic scene was how at the end, in the letter Johnny wrote to Pony he told Pony to stay gold. In my opinion I think that this meant that Pony had a good heart, and he was a nice person. Pony was nice and always willing to help. What Johnny meant was he wanted Pont to stay the way he is and not change for anyone or any reason.
This book really meant a lot to me , and it showed me what true friendship is. Even though Johnny died, he left with something in mind. He left with hope that one day the Greesers and the Socs could sit together, as equal, as normal people.

home work for coming of age

Moeez Akmal

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                Through out childhood and teen age years a person learns a lot of lessons and goes through

many phases. Childhood is a phase to have fun and learn simple life rules, such as “ABC”and counting

and mostly learning how to speak. Childhood is a fun phase a life but then… you have to grow up.

                When you’re a child, you do not no what to do. You’re not mature enough to make your own

decisions. But then when a child begins to grow up he learns more and more about life. Slowly a person

makes mistakes and learns from them. In your teenage years a person makes mistakes and learns and

carries on form them. In a persons teenage years they come across many problems such as peer-

pressure. A teenager may get pressured into doing many things that they don’t want too , such as

smoking drinking and doing drugs, but you grow upon those decisions and know not to make them

again.

                As a adult, you come upon many responsibilities such as a family job or maybe college. But in

adulthood a person learns to be himself and act more mature. As a adult you come to know that life is

more then fun and games and you become more serious about life. Adult is basically the years were you

become what you want to become.