CONNECTING THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION TO THE COMING-OF-AGE

CONNECTING THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION TO THE COMING-OF-AGE

The coming-of-age story is a genre that focuses on the protagonist’s transition from innocence to experience, naivete to knowledge, and/or youth to adulthood. This initiation into the adult world usually involves an epiphany, a revelatory, life-changing truth about life and the world/society the narrator inhabits.

Writing task:

Write a paragraph analyzing the worldview of the protagonist in either “The Flowers,” “A&P,” “Wildwood,” or “The Lesson,” and how that view changes as a result of an epiphany. When writing the paragraph, you should identify the narrator’s epiphany and analyze how TWO specific elements are used to convey specific characteristics of the Coming of Age Story .

To avoid plot summary, please review the guidelines for writing a Literary Analysis Paragraph .

To receive the maximum credit for the journal, be sure to review and follow the Response Guidelines.

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