Growing up is an obligation. We all may have a lot of moments when we grow up because it is fundamental to the process of growing up. However, we don’t share the same experiences in our moments of when we grow up. So what does it mean to grow up? When we are growing up is not only to develop, to progress, and to increase by natural process. It is also to arrive at full structure or physical or mental maturity. Many works of literature suggest that in order to grow up, one must confront something that changes his or her view of life. Michelle Serros, author of “Senior Picture Day,” suggests that one must confront low self-esteem in order to grow up. Judith Ortiz Cofer, author of “I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened,” argues that one must confront puppy …show more content…
According to Serros, unfortunately, many teenage especially girls growing up are finding it more difficult to maintain their self-esteem. There are insecure about their look, about what people thought of them, they are looking for who they really are. In “Senior Picture Day,” the narrator is a seventeen years old young girl that has self-esteem issues. She has especially problems with her nose and she even tried her best to make it looks less Indian because she wants to look perfect in her senior picture. To illustrate that: in “Senior Picture Day” she said: “MY nose has actually become smaller, narrower. It looks less Indian”. She was insecure about herself and also being ridiculed by Terri, the girls who supposed to be her best friend doesn’t help her at all. To illustrate that: in “Senior Picture Day” Terri said: “Yeah and she also has this, this nose, a nose like…like an Indian. Over.” The narrator eventually come to understand how much, what other people think, say, and theirs opinions can really change, affect, and hurt teenage feeling, and how they see