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Seasons Through My Window, Sandra L. Burke
Coming Of Age: A Selection Of Short Stories, Mary Elizabeth Horner
Coming Of Age: A Selection Of Short Stories, Mary Elizabeth Horner
Theses
Coming of age in fiction is a classic genre. Examples of life's hardest lessons learned can be found again and again in novels, movies and short stories. Most of the people in this series are a little older than adolescents, because a lot of the world's most difficult lessons come for many people in their 20s or beyond.
Normally, this type of experience is gained from falling in love, travel, or the death of someone close. Most of these realizations come for my protagonists by finding out his or her worth after the fact. Discovering worth comes from knowing what …