Breasts

In reading "A Few Words About Breasts" I found an interesting outlook on growing up and becoming an adult. The author takes us through her adolesence including her first period and her sexual experience. I thought that it was a unique and very personal essay that took a different look at growing up in the eyes of a woman. The character who I liked best was her mother who discouraged the author from buying her first bra because she took a lot of pride in her own breasts. I thought that was a unique twist to the classic story of growing up because she actually discouraged her daughter getting older. The story did not talk about other aspects of growing up, such as maturation of the mind. To read about a girl growing up just from physical, sexual standpoint was something new to me. But this story was a good example of the importance of image even as a child and someone who expects something to happen but never does. All in all, it is another example of how conscious we are as a race in what we look like and how our body is seen.