Examples Of Adulthood In Looking For Alaska

At a very young age, children dream of the day they will evolve into a fabled grown up. Our stupid, undeveloped brains knew that when we did, we would be able to decide for ourselves what to eat and when to go to bed. For many, the word “adult”, means a person who is completely mature, independent, and purposeful. While this may be true, the way to get to this stage of life is debatable. Some believe that adulthood can be defined as a specific age. For example, the legal age for someone to be classified as an adult in the United States is 18 years old. Others believe adulthood is a state of mind that can not be pinned to a specific age. An example for this is the varying time among different people for the brain to fully develop.
When one loves another organism in some way, they are unable to picture a world without them. When this beloved organism dies, the person realizes that life is eventual, and that everyone and everything they love will eventually be carried away. Each and every person who learns this fact interprets it differently. In a way this person achieves some form of enlightenment from this revelation, and because of this they are more mature after the trial. An example of this was the death of Alaska Young from John Green’s award winning novel ‘Looking for Alaska’. In the novel, The title character, Alaska, died in a car crash. This severely affected the lives of the ones who loved, especially Miles Hartler, one of Alaska’s best friends. Following Alaska’s death, Miles, along with other friends, coped with her death by trying to find the reason for why she did it. When they finally do, Miles views the world as an adult, which is evidenced by his final essay at the end of the book where he says “ We cannot be born, and we cannot
This shows that Miles understands that nothing stays the same because matter gets changed into living beings, but at the same time it is merely matter that will continue to exist even after we have all died. This shows that Miles understands that matter never stays static, and that death is just a natural occurrence, which is a realization that one needs to have in order to become and adult. Even Though death is an important part of true adulthood, it takes change to show how different you are from your child self. One of the most prominent changes is the relationship between you and your