Need and Decisions

‘The greatest day in [Everyone’s] life and [John C Maxwell’s] is when [Everyone takes] total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day [Everyone]… [will] truly grow up” said by John C Maxwell, Author. While anyone can grow up only few can make their own decisions and truly mature. Maturity can be seen in Sylvia Plath’s “Initiation” and Richard Peck’s “I Go Along”. In Sylvia Plath’s “Initiation” a young woman Millicent makes her own decisions and does not join a high school sorority. Millicent found out that joining a group, sorority, club, or gang will not have an effect on how people see her. Millicent finds out she does not need the sorority. In Richard peck’s “I Go Along” a follower Gene decides he no longer needs others to make his decisions and he can make his own. In order to mature one must be able to make their own decisions. Millicent decides she does not need to join the high school sorority. Millicent after meeting a short man on a bus realizes that the sorority is nothing but a group a flock of dull birds. “And really, [Millicent] [does not] have to belong to a club to feel related to other human beings” (Plath 264). She knows the true meaning of growing up. Her brief explanation has a big impact on her and makes her decide not to join the sorority. She remembers the heather birds and makes her decision. “Millicent thought of the heather birds… It was then she made her decision” (Plath 264). Millicent is now her own symbolic heather bird. She is making her own good decisions. Millicent has now grown up. Gene decides he wants to make his own decisions. Even though in the story he is just going to follow the class he ends up that he wants to go alone making his own decisions. “[Gene is on] the bus, and the door’s hissing shut behind [him]” (Peck 193). Gene is ready to mature. Making his own decisions helps him develop into maturity. After getting on the bus and going to the reading he had fun making his own decisions and does not want to