adolescence

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             Intoduction---------> Have you ever done something as a child not knowing what you had done until you'lve actually done it? My following essay will discuss three works of literature supporting the qoute "Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement" by Homer. Some people usually think before they act on a certain moment but for others they usually act before they think they should act on it or not. As for young children the feeling usually comes first rather than the judgement that they must make before they act.
             First from the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier, a story that took place in a poor town during " The Great Depression". A young and immature girl named Lizabeth, tortures an old woman named Miss Lottie by destroying her marigolds. After she realizes what she has done she matures and starts to grow up. In the story, Lizabeth didn't think that something so beautiful should go in front of such an ugly shack. Sometimes people don't agree with certain ideas or things, but often they just brush it off of their shoulder and forget about it. They keep their feelings inside, because they don't want to be rejected from the group. Lizabeth didn't just sit back and say that the flowers didn't go along with her yard, she did something about it. She went back and destroyed the flowers. Although her actions weren't incredibly polite, she did what she felt was right, at the time. Lizabeth has an internal conflict with herself before she destroyed the flowers, to decide whether or not she should destroy the flowers. After she destroys the marigolds, she has an internal conflict with herself having to deal with her conscience because of what she had done. She had external conflict between her and Miss Lottie throughout the entire story. She had realized what she had done after she had destr
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