Growing up: A Journey of One’s Identity

It is inescapable that individuals age. Each individual, and each being so far as that is concerned, develops old. Age is a characteristic marvel that can't be stayed away from. Some portion of growing up is finding one’s personality. As individuals age, they continually experience a procedure where they form themselves into one of a kind people. Each experience that an individual experiences impacts his character, his character, and his personality. It is through such encounters that individuals get the chance to see who they truly are. Triumphs and disappointments in life are crucial for they help reinforce the character of the individual. As it were, the point at which an individual experiences an encounter, he is forming his character paying little mind to the result of his undertaking. From adolescence to adulthood, each experience delivers a specific exercise that is taught in the individual’s being. These exercises are what characterize the person for they straightforwardly influence the individual that they are. The improvement of the individual and the excursion of self-disclosure as an individual grows up are talked about not simply in the different fields of science. Writing also has a lot of show-stoppers that give a contribution of how growing up includes the embellishment and molding of the person’s character. In spite of the fact that not legitimately talked about, writing features how the excursion of maturing is in corresponding with an individual’s venture towards characterizing his very own personality. In Mary E. Wilkins’ short story, â€Å"Mistaken Charity,† the excursion of two ladies through age and time is told. Also, it shows how their maturing harmonizes with their acknowledgment of who they truly are. Harriet and Charlotte are two sisters who never wed. Their life is based on their work and on their battle to endure. In any case, as age finds them, and their matured bodies can no longer stand their own professions, they start to understand that they are not about their work. Whenever allowed to move out of their worn out house and into a superior life, they find that it is their encounters living in that house that characterizes what their identity is. They are not used to the life in the â€Å"Home† for it doesn't feel like home to them. This is the thing that drove Charlotte to state, â€Å"O Lord, Harriã ©t†¦ let us return home. I can't remain here no courses in this world. I don't care for their vittles, an' I don't prefer to wear a top; I need to return home and do extraordinary. The currants will be ready, Harriã ©t. O Lord, thar was very nearly a chink, contemplating them. I need some of them; a' the Porter apples will be gittin' ready, a' we could have some crusty fruit-filled treat. This here ain't good.† (Wilkins, 148) This shows how regardless of how much better another life is by all accounts, individuals will consistently return to their old lifestyle for the existence they have become accustomed to characterizes who they truly are. Another story that show how growing up implies characterizing who you truly are is told in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s â€Å"Young Goodman Brown.† The story recounts how one encounters that Goodman Brown experienced in his young days totally changed his point of view. His excursion through the timberland wherein he met the secretive figure which many partner with the fallen angel may for sure be a fantasy. In any case, that experience made him fully aware of the truth that individuals may not be what they see him to be. The great Christians that he thought they were may quite be a concealment of their genuine selves. Despite the fact that it could be a fantasy, the experience was edifying for Goodman Brown. All the more critically, it was compelling in embellishment the character of Brown and his point of view. After the experience, Goodman Brown wound up turning into a skeptic. He was continually pondering whether the individuals around him were who they truly were. Truth be told, Goodman Brown even started to question the earnestness of his better half, whom he used to love and trust beyond all doubt. After the said occasion,  â he transformed into a critic, watchful and cynical of his significant other and his devotion and loyalty. The last section of the story clarifies the impact that the involvement with the timberland had on him. In the said passage it was expressed: â€Å"A harsh, a miserable, an obscurely thoughtful, a skeptical, if not a frantic man did he become from the evening of that dreadful dream. On the Sabbath day, when the assemblage were singing a sacred hymn, he was unable to listen in light of the fact that a song of devotion of wrongdoing surged uproariously upon his ear and suffocated all the favored strain. At the point when the priest talked from the podium with power and fervid persuasiveness, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the hallowed certainties of our religion, and of holy person like lives and triumphant passings, and of future ecstasy or hopelessness unutterable, at that point did Goodman Brown turn pale, fearing in case the rooftop should roar downward on the dark blasphemer and his hearers†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Hawthorne, 127) The narratives give proof of how encounters form and shape the character and character of the person. Both Goodman Brown and the sisters exhibited how they are made by their encounters. Hence, it very well may be said that growing up and maturing is a procedure of characterizing one’s self. It is a procedure of disclosure realized by life encounters where exercises are found out and imbedded in one’s lifestyle. Works Cited: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. â€Å"Young Goodman Brown.† Literature and society: A prologue to fiction, verse, dramatization, genuine. fourth ed. Eds. Pamela Annas, Robert Rossen. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007, pp 117-127. Wilkins, Mary. â€Å"Mistaken Charity.† Literature and society: A prologue to fiction, verse, dramatization, genuine. fourth ed.â Eds. Pamela Annas, Robert Rossen. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007, pp 140-150.