The document discusses two works that explore the process of growing up - the film "Bridge to Terabithia" and the novel "Get a Grip, Cooper Jones". The film is about a teenager named Jesse who has to accept the death of his best friend Leslie. The novel is about 13-year old Cooper Jones who is struggling with the absence of his father and develops feelings for a new girl Abbie that force him to confront his fear of the ocean to help her. Both works illustrate how the challenges teenagers face as they mature can help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
The document discusses two works that explore the process of growing up - the film "Bridge to Terabithia" and the novel "Get a Grip, Cooper Jones". The film is about a teenager named Jesse who has to accept the death of his best friend Leslie. The novel is about 13-year old Cooper Jones who is struggling with the absence of his father and develops feelings for a new girl Abbie that force him to confront his fear of the ocean to help her. Both works illustrate how the challenges teenagers face as they mature can help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
The document discusses two works that explore the process of growing up - the film "Bridge to Terabithia" and the novel "Get a Grip, Cooper Jones". The film is about a teenager named Jesse who has to accept the death of his best friend Leslie. The novel is about 13-year old Cooper Jones who is struggling with the absence of his father and develops feelings for a new girl Abbie that force him to confront his fear of the ocean to help her. Both works illustrate how the challenges teenagers face as they mature can help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
The document discusses two works that explore the process of growing up - the film "Bridge to Terabithia" and the novel "Get a Grip, Cooper Jones". The film is about a teenager named Jesse who has to accept the death of his best friend Leslie. The novel is about 13-year old Cooper Jones who is struggling with the absence of his father and develops feelings for a new girl Abbie that force him to confront his fear of the ocean to help her. Both works illustrate how the challenges teenagers face as they mature can help them gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
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ESSAY OF GROWING UP
Growing up is the feeling of childhood freedoms slipping away
without any warning, the loss of unstructured time for relaxation, the necessity to work to survive. The film Bridge to Terabithia, directed by Gabor Csupo and the novel Get a Grip, Cooper Jones written by Sue Whiting explore the ongoing procedure of growing up in many different ways. The film is about challenges which are faced by young teenagers at school and at home with family. The novel concentrates on average teenagers who get to the stage to maturing and understanding issues with family. The novel Get a grip, Cooper Jones written by Sue Whiting is about two teenagers who encounter many challenges, which included personal experiences for both teenagers. Cooper a thirteen-year-old boy who is at his turning point in life. Cooper doesnt have a father. His relationship with his mother becomes tense when he meets Abbie, a gorgeous new girl in town. Too close for comfort, she stirs intense feelings in Cooper. While he is struggling with an identity crisis without a father figure, Abbie is struggling with issues of identity for different reasons. It is his feelings for Abbie that force Cooper to face his fear of the ocean when she is in urgent need of help. With the bushfire blocking access to the outside world on one side, Coopers only option is the ocean. Cooper come across challenges but one of them is to step out of his comfort zone and swim in the ocean to save his friend Abbie. The film Bridge to Terabithia is directed by Gabor Csupo and is about a teenager named Jesse Aarons, the protagonist of the story. One of the challenges h had to go through was Leslies death. Leslies fire and her imagination challenged Jess to look beyond the small existence that had been defined for him by his family and their underprivileged situation. Through conversations with Leslie, Jess learned to look outward and far into other worlds both real and imaginary: Close your eyes and keep your mind wide open. This is said by Leslie to Jess when they are up in the tree looking down at farm land. Leslie was Jesses best and only friend he had ever had. She had helped him to find his inner strength, but he had to make the choice to use it. In the end, Jess had to decide whether to go back to his life the way it was, or to honour Leslies memory by keeping alive the story of Terabithia.
In conclusion, growing up is a ceaseless process that results with
challenges which are both physical or mental. This experience that teenagers go through change them into more matured and responsible people. Cooper Jones had to understand that his father left because he didnt want Cooper in the family and had to face his fear, by stepping out of his comfort zone to help Abbie, who was bitten by a brown snake. This made Cooper more matured and less fearful out the outside world. Jesse had to accept the fact Leslie was dead and she is not coming back. This experience changed Jesse Aarons and makes him more matured and realise that there is more to reality if you imagine it.