Coming Of Age Stories

Jane was not only resented but also lacking any kind of love to balance her out. We know this right away when she is reading her book and she notes "there were certain introductory pages I could not pass quite as a blank. They were

Most of the time, becoming an adult is planned. There are religious ceremonies, the gaining of a driver’s license, and other forms of new responsibility to signify the coming of age. Sometimes though maturity comes at you like a freight train. It comes at you in the blink of an eye and there is no stopping it once it hits you. You are forced to grow up and take on new responsibilities that you thought you wouldn’t have to take on until many years later. It's up to you though to decide what to do from there. You can either try and run away from the problems you have come to face or you can take the train head on and conquer what has been presented to you. I decided to face the train.

Coming of age novels, Cold Sassy Tree and To Kill a Mockingbird introduce readers to 14 year old Will Tweedy of Cold Sassy, Georgia and 5 year old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch of Maycomb County, Alabama. Both characters were brought up in small, close-knit southern towns, with false views of the world, and ignorance to knowledge and experience. As the stories progess however, the two gain a new type of knowledge and realization of the world. Experiences dealing with love, death, racism and discrimination helped the character’s child-like ideas of the world blossom into a more adult-like perspective. Will and Scout had changed in ways both . My paper will further discuss the traits that Scout Finch and Will Tweedy share.

Everyone has a different concept of beauty. Philosophy expert, Andrea Borghini says, “Beauty is one of the most fascinating riddles of philosophy” (Borghini). Throughout life a person's concept of beauty changes many times. Scott Westerfeld demonstrated how people’s concept of beauty changes several times in the book The Uglies. After examining the book, it has become clear that to come of age a person must go through three main stages of beauty; innocent beauty, experimental beauty, and mature beauty.

Bronte's Jane Eyre transcends the genres of literature to depict the emotional and character development of its protagonist. Although no overall genre dominates the novel exclusively, the vivid use of setting contributes towards the portrayal of Bronte’s bildungsroman (Realisms, 92) and defines the protagonist’s struggles as she grapples with her inner-self, and the social expectations of her gender.

Jane endured a harsh life in the home of her guardian, her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed. One of the punishments that Jane remembers immensely is her internment in the isolated and abandoned red-room, formerly belonging to Jane’s deceased uncle. Jane is forced to inhabit the chamber on her own while she is in a state of pain and fury. As the night begins to fall, the red-room begins to have an effect on Jane as the lonesome aspect of the room and its supernatural qualities begin to take their toll on Jane’s imagination. Jane begin to recall on the red-room, “I had heard what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr.

Jane at a very young age looses her parents and her uncle takes her in as his own; Once her uncle dies her aunt takes care of her because her uncle asked her. Her aunt didn't like her and she would often separate her from her cousins; Her cousin John would often mistreat her. She felt trapped in her aunt's house and she wanted to leave. Soon her aunt got her enrolled in an orphaned school where she met her first friend and learned more about discipline. Her first friend taught her about religion and how to be less rebellious. While she was in school she encountered many problems such as humiliation and she lost her best friend. As she grows up to a young lady she leaves the school because she found a job. Her job was to homeschool a young

Jane has visions and day dreams since she was a child. The ‘Red Room’ is the place where Jane starts having visions, she has one of a strange figure when she had been locked in the red room by her Aunt Reed; “…the strange

As a child, Jane lived with her malicious Aunt Reed at Gateshead Hall due to the death of her parents. Her Aunt Reed and cousins John, Georgiana, and Eliza disliked her and treated her cruelly. In one incident, Jane was sent to the red-room as punishment, which was the bedroom of his Uncle Reed, and also the bedroom in which he died. Jane claimed to have seen the

Jane also sees a light in the red-room, believing it is the ghost of her Uncle Reed, who passed away in that chamber. Jane is afraid and begins to cry, scared that he will appear to her and comfort her. This supernatural event and presence of spirits imagined by Jane adds to the gothic genre, as it increases the sense of horror in the red-room.

This novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë is about the life a woman named Jane Eyre undergoing many changes that wound up shaping the person she had eventually grown up to be. This type of novel which accounts for the psychological development of the protagonist as they grow up is known a bildungsroman. One particular moment or action, which accounts for Jane’s psychological development, that is described in this novel is the adoption of Jane by her relatives known as the Reed family (Chapter 3).

What is coming of age? In broadest terms, a transition from childhood to adulthood defines coming of age, but how can a literary character “grow up” in a fifteen-page short story or even a 200-page graphic novel? The protagonist usually reaches an epiphany and discovers something that taints the naivité and innocence associated with being a child. For instance, Omovo, the Nigerian protagonist of “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri, follows a mysterious woman into the woods. His realization occurs when he discovers the horrible truth of war; Nigerian soldiers assault her. On the other hand, Marji from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is more slowly exposed different aspects war over the course of the novel and eventually leaves her home country, signaling a coming of age. Both Omovo and Marji discover the horrible truths of war during their story and lose their innocence; these stories reveal that a traumatic event triggers a coming of age.

Jane Eyre and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also use distinct ways to show the growth of identity in their characters. One of these is the narrator: in Jane Eyre, the story is told in first person through Jane’s own eyes. By writing in the first person, Brontë creates an effect by which Jane’s point of view is the only one that is available in its entirety

Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontё, is about a young woman’s life in the late 1700’s. In the novel, the reader learns of Jane Eyre’s life as an orphan, student, governess, and wife. As a young woman in the late 1700’s, Jane experiences an immense amount of pressure and oppression from those superior to her; almost everyone was superior to her. From childhood to adulthood, the readers witness the transformation of Jane’s confidence, opinions, and experiences. Jane Eyre is considered a Bildungsroman novel because of these age progressions and transformations in the story.

Jane is an orphaned girl that ends up being raised and horribly mistreated by her aunt Mrs. Reed. One day for fighting with her cousin, Mrs. Reed puts her in the red room-the room where her uncle had died. She thinks she sees his ghost, and faints. When she wakes up to hearing Mr. Lloyd suggest she be sent away to school, while her aunt agrees. She goes to Lowood School where the principal is horrible and teaches poverty to his students. Although she makes a friend named Helen burns, she dies from a disease that sweeps through the school. This disease prompts her principal to leave and the school is taken over by a better group of gentlemen where they make Jane’s life significantly better. She graduates from the school and eventually becomes a teachr there. After two years, she becomes bored with it and becomes a governess at Thornfield and teaches a girl named Adele. She eventually comes to love Rochester, her