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What is Coming-of-Age?
Genre of literature
Youths Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
o Innocence (loss of) to experience
o Emotional, psychological, spiritual, mental
Examples: Plus you know
you're not yourself anymore
The miracle of change Drake (Nothing Was
the Same Album)
Teenage Angst
o The Breakfast
Club rebellious and
got into Saturday
school, angry of how
society is
Maturity
Catharsis
feelings:
o Pity, sorrow, rage, laughter, guilt, forgiveness
Results in the rejuvenation, renewal, restoration, rebirth
Examples:
o Shrek and Princess Fiona:
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o Romeo and Juliet:
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Epiphany
of something
A-ha moment
New information or experience that allows deeper understanding of
a situation
Examples:
o Paper Towns: Margo Roth Spiegelmen isnt who Quentin
Jacobsen thought shed be
o Quentin thought thered be a connection there, but hes
accepted theyre better off going their separate ways
Metamorphosis
speech
New information or experience that creates or allows deeper
understanding of a situation
Self-Sacrifice
death
Selflessness or putting ones self in harms way to save others
Self-sacrifice may lead to:
o Martyrdom> being killed for something you believe in or stand
up for
Example:
o Katniss volunteers as
tribute to join the arena instead of her little sister, Primrose