Annie Dillard The Chase Essay

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Time is a universal constant that keeps spanning no matter what happens. Maturity in a biological sense is something that has reached a point of “adulthood.” A caterpillar matures to creating its cocoon and eventually matures into a butterfly. This metamorphosis is something that we all go through at different points in different ways with different effects. Human beings turn out differently based on experience. Everyone is different and nobody has the same outcome so everyone is different in their own way right? Wrong. The way we perceive things and the decisions we make are all based on events that happened to us in our childhood and things that we’re told. There are key points that happen in the modern person’s life that you can use to …show more content…

Large events in our life that shape us into who we are can be broken down and thought about for pinpointing the time when this metamorphosis happens.
People label children as adults and acknowledge that they have grown a sense of responsibility and direction, as well as thought of the future. I personally see the transition into adulthood as self-awareness. When you gain the self-awareness to really understand that everyone around you goes to sleep, wakes up, eats, and does all the things that you do it really brings a sense of humanity to yourself and you start to treat people better. Annie Dillard, a Pulitzer prize winning author, writes this in her short story, “The Chase.” (Dillard) “…At the corner, I looked back; incredibly, he was still after us. He was in city clothes: a suit and tie, street shoes. Any normal adult would have quit, having sprung us …show more content…

The things that impact you can be bad or good, depending on your situation and how severe they were to you personally. I’ve been through many hardships and great things. Things like, being beaten as a child, raped, enduring racism, placed into the system and taken back out after a year or so, dropped out of college, overall failed at life so far; Went to a job where I worked hard, learned things about life, working hard, and that you can get more out of life if you want it, you can get more, you can be more, that there is an upside to every bad situation, and that other people are just that, real people. These things that have happened to me personally have shaped a lot of my personality and my outlook on life. Things that make you realize that other people go through events and have issues I believe are the things that make you an adult. This event for me was when I was working at EPB and really went through life every day with people of so many different ages and seeing the very real things that trouble them and let them enjoy things. This comradery as well as a want for everyone around you to be better and do better made me realize that everyone is going through the constant struggle I was. It wasn’t anything incredible or anything that made me realize it, but it changes everything on how you look at things and how you take in how other people act. I believe that

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