Essays About Growing Up
Growing up is how we develop throughout our lives, and there are certain characters and people that we get used to as we grow. There are those responsibilities that we take up as we grow too. In “High Noon,” Fred Zimmerman creates a film that shows how people grow up differently and shows the existence…
I wish I hadnt grown up so fast. Its just too much, too sudden. I feels as if it was only yesterday that I had no worries. I could look back and have little, to no regrets. I didnt feel as if I had to please someone, to coexist with them. Life now is full…
Growing up, all my friends had a father except for me. In the essay “All Over but the Shoutin’ Rick Braggs has the same issue. Sure everyone has a father but not every child knows him personally. I only went and visited my father two time year, if I was lucky. It would only…
As a young black woman growing up on the hardcore streets of North Philadelphia, you have to strive and fight for everything. The negativity and madness can grab and swallow even the most well-behaved kids. You live under the influence, and just become another stereotype talked about in the newspaper. Throughout my life, witnessing these…
Abhorrence, resentment, and abandoned were all the feelings I started having as early as the 9th grade. Hatred turned very quickly into violence. I found myself getting into fights and sometimes not even going to school. Having all these feels building up and towards one persons is not healthy, especially when it’s your own mother….
I never understood adults. They drink water that burns your throat and set straws on fire and sip the air. When they get together they are always loud and they pay me less attention. Yes, I thought all adults were weird, until I met my Uncle Clinton. He liked to play the drums and he…
It was my last night at home with my family. My mother went out of her way to make my favorite meal, barbeque chicken. We all sat quietly as if I would never see them again. The time seemed to fly that night as my sister and I washed the dinner dishes and cleared off…
