Characterization+of+Ages

Characterization of Age Groups

In our society, it can be determined in what age range a person is by simply looking at them. The size is not the only hint to about how old someone is, because there are certain things that people do at certain ages. Physical appearance is one clue, because there are different things that people wear or do at different ages. So is what the person is doing, because as a person matures, their interests change. There are many things that distinguish different age groups.

If there was a baby with a pacifer in their mouth, holding a teddy bear, then I would know for sure that they were a baby between the ages of one and three. This is because pacifiers are made for little children, and most parents make their children give up their pacifier by the time they’re three. Teddy bears are also objects that smaller kids play with. These are like their comfort object, and were mostly given to them when they were born. Kids the ages of one to three usually have a stuffed animal, and are very attached to it. There are many ways to distinguish a very young child, and pacifiers and stuffed animals are some of the common things that babies have.

If I saw a little girl wearing an outfit with matching shirt and bottoms playing Barbie with her friends, I would know that she was probably between the ages of four and eight, because many girls of that age group enjoy playing Barbie. Many girls from the age of four to the age of eight also wear outfits with matching clothes, because their mothers usually pick out what they’re wearing. I would know that they’re in that age group also because girls older than that usually aren’t interested in playing with Barbies. Each age group has its own distinctions, and those are some of them for girls from the ages of four to eight.

Many teenagers like to text message, or “text”, their friends on their cell phones. To them this is an enjoyable way of talking with their friends. Although some people do text message when they are past their teen years, it is more the trend for teens to text because it is more high tech and “hip”. Texting is something that can usually identify a person as a teenager.

In our community, it is sometimes easy to tell if a person is over the age of sixteen or not. This is because if a person is over sixteen, then they have their drivers license. If someone is driving a car, I know that they’re at least sixteen, because that’s the youngest that a person can be to drive a real car out on the streets. That is one of the major distinctions of people over the age of sixteen, because driving is one of the things that people under the age of sixteen can’t do.

Although there are many variations between ages in our society, unlike in The Giver, where each individual age group has something specific about them, each one doesn’t have something specific that they must have. Each person from every age group has different things, and not everybody has the exact same things. This shows that each person is an individual, and they all have their own things and ideas. Although there are some things that people from the same age group have in common, nobody has exactly the same things or ideas.