Such periods often involve long stretches of intense play. The play harkens back to the games of very young childhood. The games take place in the educational environment, where one's prowess as a student will be tested so there is always an atmosphere of lurking tension in the air. Moreover, because one is interacting with one's fellow students, there is a sense that one's future social skills and mettle is being tested as well, and one must reveal facts about one's self and future goals in conversation. But rather than immediately thrusting someone into classes and a hectic work and extracurricular schedule, freshman, high school and college age, as well as young children are encouraged to go to parties, play at noncompetitive games, and reveal facts about themselves in ice-breaking games and forums, so that the immediate associations of a potentially tension-packed environment are not as stressful as they might be otherwise. Some might argue that the separation rite of passage begins not at orientation, but when parents help students unpack their suitcases, and hover nervously while the student half hopes that they will leave, and half hopes they will stay. Such mixed disdain and longing for comfort is characteristic of most separation and transitional rites. Incorporation into the community comes once one's mother and father leave, but also once the period of transition in the form of orientation has ended as well....
One must be separate enough from one's parents to be able to engage in basic life tasks, from finding the bathroom in first grade, to finding out how to do one's laundry in college. During the transition process, one might find one reaching out, via the phone, or through comforting past rituals, such as noshing on pizza late at night, to decorating one's dorm room with Christmas lights, to reenact childhood memories out of comfort. But as one is governed by the daily routines of going to class, participating in the social environment of college, and meeting new people, one finds one's self for better or worse, incorporated into a new social climate that is both different from what one is used to, and improves upon the self that was built up by past experiences, positive and negative. And finally, at graduation, one might regard the entire process of schooling itself as a kind of liminal period, as a rite of passage of preparation for the even more arduous intellectual demands of the workplace, the responsibilities of keeping one's self to a budget, and of finding a loved one whom one owes emotional responsibilities to, and requires one to make the final separation from one's parents as a needy child.
It is believed among these people that young girls form romantic attachments to water spirits. Before they are considered marriageable and allowed to receive mortal suitors, they must first free themselves from these attachments. This is accomplished by the coming together of the girls at the river on successive dawns to sing the songs they have learned. On the final day, the initiates return to the riverbank and the
RITES OF PASSAGE' The poem 'Rites of passage' says a lot about the way society conditions young girls and boys to behave in a manner befitting their gender. This is not exactly a poem celebrating a young boy's birthday party, but it actually focuses on the way society and environment conditions people in a gender specific manner. The poem appeared in Sharon Olds' collection titled The Dead and the Living published
Boon should have nursed the dogs" (The Bear, 215). Irving Howe points comments of Sam's role as a mentor as well as his place as the priest in the ceremony: "the boy's mentor, in the hunt and the acknowledged priest of the ceremony that could be held only in the forest" (William Faulkner: A Critical Study, 93). The symbolism of the characters and the events in Faulkner's short novel is
Rites of Passages of puberty followed by Eskimo and Australian Aborigines. The indigenous cultures of the past have always held a great regard for the traditional and superstitious. Elaborate rituals are associated with each aspect of life and the people celebrate these rituals as a community. The community being patriarchal in most circumstances the dominance of the male hierarchy is clearly seen and that the rituals are associated then with
Crossing to that desk, these artifacts seemed to say, required both submission and opposition, and both of them in extreme degrees. Before that could even be attempted, however, the observer was met by the young man springing up from behind the third desk in the room, the one that sat only five or six feet back from the doorway and the tinted plate glass. This man was younger; certainly younger
Neither of the above rites of passages, though both are important and definitely bound by rules of magic, are especially ritualistic in a participatory sense. In this regard, the many layers of security that Harry and his friends must get through in order to arrive at the Sorcerer's Stone is the most clear example in the book. Each trial on the way to the room that contains the Stone tests
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