their own identities. In The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield starts his story in Pencey Prep School which is his fourth school he has flunked out of. Holden has some time before he has to go home, so he goes into New York and tells his story from there. He comes across many interesting people and in the two days he is there, he faces many of the struggles that have been holding him back in life. In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, the main character Charlie is
became prevalent to me as I read through many books, that everyone goes through the process of finding who they are. A prevalent theme throughout literature is the idea that over time one develops their identity through life over time, in contrast to being born with one identity and having the same
affect the way that teenagers function and represent themselves? The novel Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger is about a man named Holden Caulfield. He gets kicked out of his private school and is forced to go home. On the way home, he tries to find happiness in negative things. By the end of the novel, we can see that he is still struggling to find happiness. The novel, The Perks of being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky is about a boy named Charlie. Charlie is a freshman of high school in the beginning
schooling,[citation needed] while a Künstlerroman ("artist novel") is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.[16] Furthermore, some memoirs and published journals can be regarded as Bildungsroman although being predominantly factual (an example being The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara).[17] The term is also more loosely used to describe coming-of-age films and related works in other genres. Examples[edit]