Category: Coming of Age

Concept of Aging Artists and Interest/Disinterest of Their Work on the Example of Tupac Shakur, Eminem and Britney Spears Popular culture is everywhere, from adolescents to adulthood. Popular culture impacts us and lives on through different forms of media, memory and nostalgia. However, it is important to note that culture making is a social process:…

Brotherhood during Coming of Age In The Kite Runner and Brother Have you ever realized how strong a relationship can be, in this case, how a brotherly relationship could be? Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival – Carlos P. Romulo. In the novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and the…

Coming Of Age Process In The Book Perks Of Being A Wallflower This book is about a teenager named Charlie who is about to start his first day of high school after dealing with the suicide of his only and closest friend. To deal with the anxiety, Charlie begins to write letters to a stranger…

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre as a Coming of Age Story Essay Charlotte Bronte’s classic, Jane Eyre, is a ‘coming of age’ story. The main character, Jane, travels from the innocence of childhood through the maturity of adulthood. During this journey, Jane goes through the battle of education vs. containment, where she attempts to learn about…

Coming of Age: Jane Eyre Jane Eyre, from the innocence of childhood to mature adulthood. During this travelling, Jane Eyre experiences the education and full of blows, she tries to understand herself. However, she must constantly struggle with some form of containment, whether it is truly physical or mental. This struggle can be seen in…

Essay on ‘Life of Pi’: Coming of Age Science played a major role in Pis survival during his journey. Life of Pi is a book written by Yann Martel which was based on a sixteen-year-old boy by the name of Piscine Molitor Patel. The main themes of this book are belief, science, and religion, telling…

Essay on Coming of Age in ‘Smoke Signals’ The movie Smoke Signals tells the story of relationships between two main characters Victor Joseph and his friend Thomas. Thomas has a special relationship with victors father, Arnold, who accidently killed his parents, but saved him from burning house. And this was the main reason why Thomas…

Coming of Age Moments in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Introduction to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and Its Coming-of-Age Theme Shot in black and white, this movie is a beautiful visual. To Kill a Mockingbird is a masterpiece everybody should see. Not only is To Kill a Mockingbird an essential film in American cinema, but it…

Coming of Age in Albertallis Novel ‘Love Simon’ and Chboskys Film ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, the director of the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Becky Albertalli, the author of Love Simon teaches the audience the process of coming of age. Chboskys film follows Charlies journey as he enters his…

Coming of Age in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Jasper Jones’ During 1930s America, and 1960s Australia, African-Americans and Aboriginals are highly excluded and thought very low in all societies. In the film and novel, the characters question their conventional thinking of what is right and wrong as they navigate small-town morality, racism, and hypocrisy.…