My acrostic poem of growing up from To Kill a Mockingbird is about how when one grows up they can never go back and change, but more how you can look back and learn from something. I chose this piece because I like it a lot. As a result of that, just writing it to me was very fun and and I enjoyed it. In the process of writing my poem I really liked how you could relate yourself into it because it makes the book for so much more real. I really feel like some of theses last pieces really showed me how much books aren't just words, there is always a deeper meaning to it.
My Work
Growing up is one of the things you can never go back or change. It’s not a matter of how you do it, its how you remember it.
gRowing up is the only thing you can rely on forever, it’s a constant. It’s how you act and remember what you did with your life and you use those memory’s to guide you through whatever life throws at you
When grOwing up dancing around in a public place, not care what other people think of you, is now looked at as embarrassing and weird. But as before, you didn’t care, that innocence that has consumed you has taken away any worries and doubts about how other people view you
after you groW up you “reckon you're at the stage now where you don’t kill flies and mosquitoes” because you have learned the innocence of other creatures have making you aware of others. You're not tossing away others thoughts and having no cares in the world dancing around, you are thinking of others, looking beyond yourself
when growIng up “thus beg[ins your] longest journey” of becoming a lady so desirable. your fangirled over cities, having the manners of princess, becoming a girl with such kindness you are seen as a saint, being the person you have always looked up to, your own role model
No one ever tells you how to do it, you have figured it out yourself, ”After all, If Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could [you]”. She wasn’t someone you could look up to and aspire to be but it was what growiNg up could turn out to be like
The Greatest moments in your childhood are when someone calls you “Mister Jem” or “little lady” recognizing you as man or women, making you feel respected. When someone remarks how “Jems growing up” and you feel as if you had done something right, gentleman like, for someone to see you as a different person, old and all wise.
There is always a sad part to leaving your memories, childhood, your innocence behind because “[when] you’re children, you can understand” things them older folks don’t, you haven't been infected by the disease, your innocence hasn’t been slowly stripped from your naive mind, which is so clear to harm
Growing uP is never suppose to be easy. It slips out your hands in seconds, all the sudden your 18 in high school and your life is about to begin, about to start, and your old, naive, middle school days are all over and you know you are never getting them back. No matter how much you want it or how hard you try, it just blew right past you like a cold windy day you wanted to end, but then it ends and you want it back, all if it.