I will talk about living on own in the USA. Especially I will focus on the good about living on own and bad about living on own. Basically living on own means living the separate from your family. There are a lot of good and bad about it, however before I mention about it, I would like to make sure that how does parents and children feel when they decide to living on own because both of them feel different. For parents, they feel sad and joyful actually. They feel sad because the parents can’t live with their children anymore and it makes them hard to meet quite often. They feel joyful when they meet their children after living on own because the parents are able to see how the children grow up comparing with their childhood. What the happiest thing is growing up healthy. For children, they feel happy often because they think it is a way of being adult. 
              
     Next, I will talk good about living on own. One of the biggest is can be
responsible. If the children living on own, they have to wash the clothes and to
clean the room themselves because no parents in the house or dormitory. Some children work hard to get the money for paying school expenses. It’s one of having responsibility. After writing this blog about living on own, I thought
that usually the parents worry about how to get the food and how security is,
however they lives dormitory and they have cafeteria in dormitory. 
 
       
     Finally, I will talk bad about living on own. The living on own is more
expensive than living with family because the children needs new furniture. The
money is important for us to alive. Also they feel homesick which a sensation
for missing the family is. Basically living on own is far away from parent’s
house. After separate from their family, they can do whatever they want because when we were child, the parents were to judge what’s going
on.

   In conclusion, there are lots of good and bad about living on own. I think the symbol of it is the key. Every day they use it to enter the room and no body supposed to inside of room. If you are living on own, you will be responsible person. I think it’s a myth. The living on own is a translate stage which is second because the living on own makes people be more responsible. Also, I think this rite of passage is ritualization because there is no strict step. The living on own is for mainly parents because it influence the parents to think about their children.    

References
Corin Yamaguchi
http://okwave.jp/qa/q3324714.html
Toshiki Takeuchi
10/14/2013 05:30:04 pm

It was really intetesting reading. I didn't know that parents feel joyful when children leave the home. In Japan, parents don't feel that. It's the difference between Japan and America.

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Russell Fauss
10/15/2013 06:55:23 am

Good start. Let's focus a little more on the ritual aspects of this. For example, I agree that a key could be a symbol, but what is it a symbol of? For myth, what are some stories Colin's parents or others told him about living alone? What were the themes of these stories? I think living alone is neither ritual nor ritualization, but the process of moving might be.

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Sayuri Ono
10/15/2013 03:31:41 pm

Does living on your own have a reaggregation stage? I could catch the other stages but I’m not sure when the end of this ritualization is and when is the finish of living on your own. Does their status or emotion change?

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Momo Chimura
10/16/2013 03:35:43 pm

I agree with you that children who live on own will be more responsible because they have to have responsibilities for their actions such as doing daily life chore by themselves and inviting their friends to the room. Also, I think the key could be a symbol, but I want to know more how the key matches the definition of symbol. I enjoyed reading your blog post.

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