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Bobby Coming Of Age
How did bobby come of age? Bobby was forced to grow up when he got hid girlfriend Nia pregnant. He was told by different people that he had no childhood anymore. This essay is about Bobby coming of age.

The wall is supposed to be a symbol of bobby and finding his identity. Bobby is spray painting about his flashbacks while trying to find his identity. The first flashback he has is when him and K-boy were flying kites. The second flashback he has is J.L and him were at the museum and then they were blowing bubbles. The third and last flashback is of him, his brothers, and his parents all on vacation. He sees himself in the first flashback as a "pale ghost boy" and when he looks in the mirror he doesn't have an identity. In the second flashback he sees a brown girl looking away from him. In the third flashback he sees himself as a baby that doesn't have a face and he doesn't have an identity. Bobby's art is a reflection of life.

The stuffed animal is supposed to be a symbol of childhood and
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"I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door into the hall toward Mary's room." This means that his childhood is rolling away to his mothers room. Ever since Bobby was given feather baby he has been told that he no longer has a childhood. Bobby went to play basketball with friends and forgot feather. " I forgot Feather, and left her all alone." Bobby almost got all the way to the corner before he realized that he forgot Feather. "And I'd almost got all the way to the corner."

This essay was about how bobby was coming of age. The wall was a symbol of Bobby trying to find his identity, the stuffed animal was a symbol of Nia's mother needing comfort, the basketball was a symbol of Bobby's childhood rolling away, the bubblegum was a symbol of them still having a childhood, and the red balloon was a symbol of Nia giving the news of being pregnant to Bobby. The symbols showed how Bobby came of

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