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A 5 page
paper which examines the developmental identity of the teenage individual as it involves
parents first and then identity as a self sufficient adult. No other sources cited.
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rebel against everything their parents stand for. These are inherent ways in which people seek out their own identity. Without parents they would not have any clear direction from which
they can learn to develop their own identity. Such is the case with Selina in Paule Marshalls novel "Brown Girl, Brownstones." The following paper discusses how Selina rebels against her
parents in an attempt to find her identity, and then examines how she returns to her parents, primarily her mother, once she is a mature individual with her own unique
identity. Selina as a Child Selina seemed, from the beginning as a youth, to be an individual who already had her identity set in many ways. She was
often seen as a child that was far older than her years and in modern times we may say she was an "old soul." This is evident in the following
excerpt from the novel: "a ten-year-old girl with scuffed legs and a body as straggly as the clothes she wore. A haze of sunlight seeping down from the skylight through
the dust and dimness of the hall caught her wide full mouth, the small but strong nose, the eyes deep set in the darkness of her face. They were not
the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for
what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there" (Marshall NA). This is a
simple excerpt, yet an excerpt that could be further analyzed in greater detail in a more lengthy paper. For example, one could focus on how her childhood was perhaps wanting
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