Essay 7

Growth:

My Thoughts on Growing Up

An Essay by Alexander Hawley

8^th Grade English

Pine Point School

November 4, 2010

            (TS) Growing up is a important and helpful-sometimes slow, and it is sometimes fast, but it is sometimes possible that you will grow faster, or better, with someone’s help. (SD) The best part of growing up is that when you mature it really helps you for the rest of your life. (CM) It helps you because while growing, going to school, and observing, you gain lots of knowledge. (CM) Not only knowledge as in how to do algebra, but you also learn important life skills, like fire is not something you touch, a very early and crucial life skill. (CM) Also, when you are growing, you gain more practice at the things that you learned earlier in your life. (SD) Also, as earlier stated, growing can happen at many different speeds. (CM) It can be a very rapid process if you experience something very sad or highly emotional because it will probably have a big impact on you. (CM)For example, when Jem meets Mrs. Dubose and actually gets to know her, he grows a lot faster when she, unexpectedly for him, dies. (CM) Also, growing can be slow if you are just going through life with nothing unexpected, if you are just on a normal schedule for every day of your life. (SD) Furthermore, someone else can help you grow up better into an adult, a responsible, a nice, a polite, and an intelligent person. A sample of this from To Kill a Mockingbird is how Atticus is so responsible, that he is slowly teaching his children to grow up into good adults. (CM) Also, if you admire someone, whether they like it or not, they are teaching you how to grow up because you are going to do whatever they are doing no matter what it is. (CS) The very important puzzle that is growing up has some hard parts, like the background where everything is the same color, and it has some easy parts, but you might need some help from a friend to put it together right. 

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