Maturity and the sense of responsibility
The experiences of the world should teach people various lessons as they grow up. Yet, some realizations may happen at a tender age, while others occur at an old age. As a result, maturity and the sense of responsibility hit an individual during different periods of their lives. The lessons hit when an individual experiences a life-changing or threatening ordeal. On the other hand, growth may occur as an individual undergoes various challenging situations in life. Life experiences allow individuals to understand the intensity of a situation and the solution required to solve it. Social development will enable people to understand other people’s feelings, such as frustrations and how to recognize such individuals. Comparing the protagonists of Great expectations and The Boat Illustrate how individuals experience different life incidences, determining how they solve issues.
Charles Dickens relies on the elements of various genres in “Great expectations” to illustratePip’s story. The protagonist in the story gives his experiences from an emotional development and an intellectual perspective. The protagonist exists as the narrator of “Great Expectations,” which analysis his life from the age of eight to thirty – this makes him a bildungsroman referring to a novel that highlights the emotional growth of an individual and the intellectual development of the protagonist. The protagonist has his life divided into three stages: childhood, apprenticeship, and the last part of his realization. The childhood stage highlights the sibling role in his upbringing after the death of their parents. He learns through apprenticeship during his teen years, where he comes across an unexpected inheritance. The realization part gives a better understanding of how he gets his grip on life by illustrating whether he fails or achieves his expectations.
The Boat has the Captain as the lead character, the protagonist. The Captain has significant leading characteristics, which render him unique and trustworthy by the crew. The crew trusts that he will get them on the shore so that they can go home. The Captain has lost the ship at the initial stages of the story, which makes him suffer greatly more than the rest of the crew. He has already lost the ship, making him lose everything that gives him authority. As a result, he has lost everything, even his self-esteem. However, he still holds the determination to get the crew at the shore safely.