Coming Of Age

The Transformative Component of Love and Loss The coming of age happens when a person transitions from childhood to adulthood. It doesn’t happen overnight, but rather gradually, over many events that help form and change the child into an adult. This coming of age happens when someone experiences something significant in their life that makes them change in a way they never had before. Coming of age can be hard, depending on the component or emotion that brings about this change. A person can experience a lot through this process and transform the way they think and act from that moment forward. A person begins to mature, and grow through this process. In this essay, I will be talking about two of the most transformative emotional components
Philip chose to hum loudly, multiple times, and this is what brought about his feeling of loss and isolation. Through Philips transformation he experiences loss in multiple ways, loss of friends, loss of the chance to be on the track team that he had worked so hard to get on, and loss of the feeling of belonging in his community. The students and teachers in the school know the truth, that Phillip was in the wrong, but everyone else in news, radio, and politics got the untrue story that Narwin was squashing patriotism in young students, thus, causing her much hurt and loss of her own and unfair persecution, due to this one-sided story telling. Phillip finally begins to transform when he comes to the realization that he has lost everything he has worked hard to
Early in the story, Juliet was obedient to her parents, a shy and innocent girl who had not had experience with love, at least in a relationship way. The event that brought about Juliet’s coming of age experience all started when Romeo and his friends went in disguise to a masked party that the where not welcome at, due to the long lasting feud between the two families. Juliet and Romeo meet at the party and instantly fall in love. When Juliet fell in love with Romeo, she would do anything to be with Romeo, even disobey her parents. Due to the family rivalry, no one supported their relationship, but Juleit did not care who supported her as long as she had Romeo. Juleit experiences love so strongly that she would do anything for Romeo. This is proven through the quote “My bounty is as boundless as the sea”. My love is deep, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” The quote by Juliet proves that she has grown and matured in the component of love. This quote shows that she feels this emotion so strongly and is saying there is no limit to her love for Romeo. And she feels this so intensely that she is willing to kill herself if she cannot be with him. Through this play, Juliet’s actions before she felt love and after she felt love are very different. She grows and changes once she feels this