Bobby Coming Of Age Quotes
Coming of age is what Bobby does in the book called, The First Part Last. Coming of age is a term use to describe the difference between childhood and adulthood. Some symbols in this book that show how he is coming of age such as, balloons, a basketball, the wall, bubble gum and the arcade. He never inferred us about the resemblance. We had to figure them our by ourselves. In the first place, the balloon has great resemblance. It is resembling love and childhood because Nia, the mother, is pregnant & had the pregnancy test in the balloon it relates to coming of age by these reasons. She was pregnant with Bobby's baby. In the story Bobby narrates, "then she handed me the balloon." This quote is explaining that Nia had handed Bobby the balloon.
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This will explain the coming of age and what the basketball resembles. When he was with Feather, the baby, he had left her home alone to play basketball. He went to the corner and put the ball down. As he put the ball down, it had rolled over to his house, by itself, and went to Bobbys old room. The resemblance for it is childhood. It has him remembering how when he was a little boy he could play basketball and not have to worry about a baby. In the story bobby narrates, "I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door into the hall toward Marys room." (Mary is Bobbys mom) This quote explains that the ball, he had just put down went rolling back to his house and him missing his old childhood. Finally, the wall resembles of what had been going on in the Bobbys life and his coming of age. He was explaining what things have gone wrong and the things that have been going on. He found himself there till dark, drawing everything when the cops seen it. He was showing on the wall how he was healing. In the book The First Part Last Bobby states,"the boys got to be paler. But no, maybe just some green all around him. Maybe just some more green." Just like a bruise heals, it starts to get green around it first then heals. Its showing coming of age from how he use to be so destroyed and he grew up
This will explain the coming of age and what the basketball resembles. When he was with Feather, the baby, he had left her home alone to play basketball. He went to the corner and put the ball down. As he put the ball down, it had rolled over to his house, by itself, and went to Bobbys old room. The resemblance for it is childhood. It has him remembering how when he was a little boy he could play basketball and not have to worry about a baby. In the story bobby narrates, "I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door into the hall toward Marys room." (Mary is Bobbys mom) This quote explains that the ball, he had just put down went rolling back to his house and him missing his old childhood. Finally, the wall resembles of what had been going on in the Bobbys life and his coming of age. He was explaining what things have gone wrong and the things that have been going on. He found himself there till dark, drawing everything when the cops seen it. He was showing on the wall how he was healing. In the book The First Part Last Bobby states,"the boys got to be paler. But no, maybe just some green all around him. Maybe just some more green." Just like a bruise heals, it starts to get green around it first then heals. Its showing coming of age from how he use to be so destroyed and he grew up