(442 words) Each of us in childhood dreamed of growing up as soon as possible, thinking that to be adults is much better than to be small. In the view of the child, an adult does not go to school, does not teach lessons and does not eat tasteless cereal for breakfast. However, children's ideas do not always coincide with reality, however sad it may sound. To be an adult means to be able to control one’s life, behavior, to be responsible for one’s own actions in life, without resorting to the help of relatives. When does a child turn into an experienced and responsible person? When does cease to eat porridge? Not. I think adulthood begins with obstacles that people overcome with dignity. My statements can be confirmed by examples from the literature.
At the beginning of the novel A.S. Pushkin's "Captain's Daughter" the main character of the work appears before us as a young man, accustomed to parental care and affection, not knowing grief and misfortune. Because of this pampering, the young man does not want to work normally, but is waiting for “dust-free service” in St. Petersburg. But Grinyov’s fate turns differently, putting him on a long and difficult path, passing through which Peter becomes a truly adult person who knows how to think and act sensibly. He is faced with a peasant uprising against power, he almost perishes in the struggle, but he withstands these difficulties and finds the strength to serve his homeland and save weak people who cannot take care of themselves. From this moment we see not a teenage boy, but a mature and courageous man. This means that a person grows up when hard trials fall on his lot, when he faces a difficult choice or finds himself in difficult circumstances. Growing up is a complex process that forces people to solve their problems on their own, so it is unrealistic to go through it without problems.
Sometimes an adult remains a child, this can be observed in the novel by I. A. Goncharov “Oblomov”. In the work, the main character remembers a carefree childhood most of his time. The man even has a sweet dream about him, where in the village of Oblomovka everything went in an unhurried rhythm of idleness. This is the ideal of Ilya Ilyich. The author shows us a man who, due to his existing character and circumstances, could not go through the stage of growing up. Oblomov does not want to shoulder any responsibility, and inaction becomes his only way out. Why did this happen? The lifestyle of the Russian nobility is to blame. The peasants did everything for the master; he simply spent the money they earned, being a parasite on the body of his native country. That is why then it was often possible to observe already in a mature person "childishness" in behavior and actions. Without difficulties and problems, people do not grow up, because they have no motivation for personal growth, and they do not bear any responsibility.
A person grows up when he independently and successfully makes his way through thorns to the stars. We can definitely say that being an adult is a great responsibility that not everyone is able to take on, because not all people solve their problems on their own, even in our century when serfs are no longer there.
