Growing

Is growing a bad thing or a good thing

An essay by Harry Staley

8^th grade English

Pine Point School

November 4, 2010

                I sometimes enjoy growing because if we didn’t grow we would all be small and the world would be boring. Growing is a spectacular way to experience life. Without growing life would be a lot more boring because we would not know all of the things humans know today. Humans need to grow because if we didn’t life would be a huge disaster. Everybody in life needs to grow.

                Growing up is a big part of everybody’s life because growing up means that you slowly begin to mature. If you mature to fast you can experience pain. It’s a different type of growing but it is called having growing pains. In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem grows up when he reads to Mrs. Dubose, the mean old lady who made fun of Atticus. Jem grows up in this section of the book because Atticus, his father, tells him that Mrs. Dubose died. When she dies Jem realizes that there’s more to life than just going outside and just hanging around. I believe that everyone in the world should grow up like Jem did and we will all learn from our mistakes, In this instance Jem didn’t make a mistake he just became connected to someone and then lost them. Growing up may be a very hard part of your life but everyone does it and everyone lives through it.

                Growing up is a great part of life but it can get annoying? The one thing that I think will be the most annoying thing when grow up is not having my mom or dad picking up after me. That’s going to be a very interesting point in my life. I know when I am old enough to live on my own I will look back on that day when my mom or dad would pick up all of my clothes that were on the floor. Growing up has its ups and downs but everybody does it.