We were all hoping to grow up when we were young, as the time pass by, we are growing older and having more opportunities to decide what we want. However, every decision you made are always coming with many responsible. Why do we need to be responsible for our actions? What if we did not take responsibility for our own actions? Obviously, we’ll influence our future, but even more we may also influence other people’s life and their point of viewing us. In the short story “A Boy Grows Older” by Morley Callaghan, the main character Jim Sloane is a man that realize his own responsibility after he feels he may influence his parent’s life and decides to take his responsibility in the end. We should take personal responsibility for our actions for preventing us to affect others. Initially, Jim Sloane is an irresponsible, childish and desperate character because of his behavior and his talk with his …show more content…
For the action he asks his parent for help, he feels ashamed and sorry. When his father is giving the cheque to him, he “looking at the check as if it was very hard for him to take it”. Jim change his perception and starts feeling ashamed about what he has done up to this point because he feels sorry to face to his parents for helping. He finally realizes his responsibility and hopes his parents would believe and trust him. His father chooses to trust him and makes him “so grave it that make him looks years older”. After all those thing happens, they make Jim Sloane became more mature and his point of view is changing. It is never too late to realize and take actions to show respect to yourself and take responsibility for anything you have decided and chosen. If we do not take responsibility for our own actions, we’ll also affect people around us. As we are growing older, we’ll be more independence to decide and choose, but we also need to be able to be responsible for
Jim is a “man on the run” moving from school to school to avoid trouble and feels alienated from his family and peers. The film is stylistically noirish with Nicholas Ray’s use of low-key, garish lighting, the use of shadows cast on character’s faces, and the setting of a city street at night in the opening scene. The film also deconstructs film noir conventions by including a fatherly policeman, white heterosexual antagonists, and a female love interest that isn’t responsible for his troubles. Themes of the teen drama genre are also heavily present, such as Jim being the “new kid” in school, choosing the popular girl as a love interest, being late to the trip to the observatory, and a fight with a bully on the first day of
In order to be a responsible citizen in the world, a person must “take charge of their lives. They make plans for nurturing their talents and skills” (Spellings 15). Humans have done this so far but not always ending in positive results. A person can take charge of their life, as long as they do not allow too much progress to result in doing too much to take charge of their lives along with using their talents or
With prior friendships being mainly those of Tom Sawyer and misguided children of a “gang”, the concept of the nature of a friendship was misconstrued. Jim’s friendship taught him the importance of unconditional love, and having a friends back no matter what. Jim refers to Huck as the “best friend that old Jim ever had in the world” (214). This resonates with Huck and when tempted to write a letter to Miss Watson to expose Jim’s whereabouts, he recalls his relationship with Jim. He remembers the level of trust that has been created between the two of them, and how close their journey to freedom has brought them. Having come to this new realization of a moral compass, he is unable to do this to his new friend and states, “‘All right then, I’ll go to hell’ and tore it up” (214). He is suddenly able to better separate differences between what is truly right, and what is societally
We can see throughout the movie that Jim¡¯s father is cowardly and afraid to stand up for himself even to his own wife. There are multiple scenes in the movie where this is quite evident, but the scene that stands out the most is when Jim comes back from the ¡°chicken run¡± and looks for reassurance from his father. Yet, what he gets is not a father giving him guidance and support, but someone who tries to please his son and agrees with everything he says. Instead of standing up for his own beliefs and standing behind what he tells his son at first, he continually switches what he says to find the easy way out of the situation. Jim¡...
Jim Stark is seen as a struggling teen during the 1950s, however it is not his fault. Jim’s father is very submissive to his wife, allowing the family to move homes constantly to keep Jim safe, however, Jim never stays safe. Jim’s father also constantly refers to him as “chicken,” which Jim does not like. This term causes Jim to get himself into trouble with a the local hotshot, this result in the death of the hotshot. From this point on Jim is different, he confronts his dad physically, and runs away with a girl. Jim then comforts a younger boy with a gun. It can be inferred that Jim does not want to become his dad, submissive, so he goes out and becomes dominant, talking down the boy, challenging the hotshot, and getting the girl, all while his dad is at home wearing a pink apron. In the end, his father realizes this and promises to be a better father. Additionally, Plato is raised without a father and is seen as an outcast, he is presumably gay in a time that homosexuality is frowned upon, also he goes on an angered induced rampage with a gun; the presence of a father may or may not have changed his sexuality, but it would have changed his mindset when he needs to fight back, nothing lethal, but something to make his
We need to give responsibility to our child because they are taking risk and assuming responsibility which often go hand in hand for Example “giving a child her first pocket knife at, say age 9 not only gives her the advantage of experiencing a little risk play with a sharp object. It signals that she’s responsible for keeping herself and other safer”. (Michael Ungal 28). In some case that experience allow to see them unsure about whether their child is competent enough to keep herself safe or responsibility freedom to play for our children alone and climber in the trees that allow advantage to take a good decision in grow up when we don’t say with it. Also when our children going to grow up is good decision too orient about your education because is one decision than they need to take, the parent don’t allow take decision about it, because when their children don’t take that thing they like or can be person frustrate in the future. For Example “when we have a lot of responsibility in our childhood or younger age all these responsibilities you had while younger were always like them”. (Michael Ungal
This mindset controls people entire artistic expression as human beings. People consider their conscious decisions based on these questions: “What am I really trying to do? Will this action only be of benefit to me? Am I willing to take full responsibility for the outcome of this choice?” (Jackson-Buckley. n.d.). These set of questions is what triggers people mind into making poor decisions and not to think outside their own world. Also, these questions is what makes people to overthink the purpose of any situation that have an impact on their lives in the future. People never manage the outcome of their decisions because they avoid the responsibility. Responsibility is an significant component within the theme of conscious decisions. It allows people to recognize that if they decide to go this route, than the responsibility would be position on that individual. (Jackson-Buckley. n.d.).
Conclusion: Jim struggling to gain his freedom shows us not only his perseverance but also the strong character he continues to build throughout the novel. Jim makes a major impact on Huck’s life, different from all of those who came in and left without making a difference in the novel. Their friendship is something that is valued through their entire Journey , and also changes Jim for the better by bringing out his compassionate and caring side. Breaking away from slavery and impacting lives of people around him, Jim makes the perfect hero for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
From the start of the novel to the very end, descriptions of the Jim’s environment
Responsibility makes you an adult. In the short story “The Man who was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright, is about a teenage boy struggling to break away from childhood and go in the world of adulthood. Discouraged by being young, poor, and black, Dave battles with the pressure of wanting to be an adult and still being perceived as a child by the adult community. In Dave’s situation, the actions and decisions he takes to achieve manhood hardly reinforces his elders’ beliefs that he is still an adolescent.
Jim is an extraordinary father figure towards Huck because he believes Huck is his responsibility and must do whatever it takes to keep him safe. When the two first meet, Jim’s main goal was to get to Cairo and be free from slavery, but after the two spent countless hours together floating down the river, Jim begins to develop a sense of endearment toward Huck and that he must treat him as one of his own. By using words like “honey” (Twain 113), one can see that Jim has grown affectionate towards Huck and would do anything to protect his well-being. The two gentlemen grow such a strong relationship that Jim forgets about his freedom just to ensure that Huck achieves his goal of finding a new home and escaping Pap. Jim also acts as a father towards Huck by providing Huck with a sense of security and protecting him from many difficulties. For example, in the beginning of the novel, Jim and Huck went exploring on the island where they found each other and on that island they found a cabin and inside they discovered a dead man and Jim told Huck, “He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s been dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face-it’s too gashly” (Twain 50). The fact that Jim was willing to look at the gashed face of the dead man showed his bravery and willingness to do whatever it takes to protect Huck. Jim protects Huck throughout the twos adventures and in
Jim from the book Jim the Boy matures greatly throughout the book. Jim starts off strong in the book with a respect towards his mother and uncles that most children today would not present. Over time, his maturity level rises and he begins to become a man. He gains most of his knowledge of adulthood from witnessing the actions of his family members. There are factors that play into the start of coming of age. For Jim those factors increase due to the fact that he has to live during the great depression. A quote from Ardyth Ann Stull shares what mothers were encouraged to teach their children at a young age: “Another important component of their daily work was helping their children learn how to complete household tasks, so they would become competent to perform those tasks in adulthood” (17). Jim was also one of the many children that must mature more quickly due to the fact that he is living
...s as far as saying he will go to hell if that is the cost to be a true friend to Jim, his loyal companion and even a father figure. With this, he acknowledges that he is an evil person and that society has the correct answers when it comes to being ethical. His moral crisis near the end illustrates that he desires to be “good”, but he is unsure of what that entails. By society's standards, 'being good' would mean sending the letter informing Miss Watson of her runaway slave. In his heart though, being good means protecting those you care about, despite violations of any rule or law. So his choices are turning Jim in, or to help Jim escape from his captors, the latter being is the choice he makes. Society hinders and disrupts the development of his strong moral compass, because he believes that he is going to hell, even if he also believes he made the right choice.
Everyone has to make choices in their lives. As a child most of our choices are very small. For instance, choosing what toy we wanted to play with. The older everyone gets the more difficult choices, come into play. We take on the choices of adulthood. We control our future. We decide whether our life is a disaster or a success.
This world has turned into a place where people are required to take full responsibility for their actions and words. Often we do this informally, via moral judgment or if not through legal judgment. In other words we become morally responsible, deserving praise, blame, reward or punishment for an act or omission based upon one’s moral obligations, thus contradicting the concept of free will. Main viewpoints on moral responsibility interact with the following three, constructed by human action: determinism, compatibilism and libertarianism. A philosopher once said “Just as we separated the concept ‘free’ from the concept of ‘will’ in order to better understand ‘free will,’ so we need to separate ‘moral’ and responsibility."