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The Coming Of Age In Literatur - Online Term Paper

The Coming Of Age In Literatur

A theme is being traced through the three stories of “Nights”, “Sundiata”, and “Gilgamesh”. It is the coming of age of a child or man in a story. In all of these stories, a child or man who has to face many challenges is part of coming of age. In “Nights”, the young man has to face a German refugee camp and has to basically face death or as close as you can come to it. In Sundiata, young Sundiata has to face many challenges in growing up, and in Gilgamesh, a man had to face a long strenuous journey in result of his coming of age. Therefore, it will be shown how each theme of coming of age relates in each story.
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unequal to mine.” (Niane, 105). Although she gave her the leaves, she made fun of her right to her face. This enraged Sundiata and he dropped his crutches he used to walk and went and picked up a whole boabab tree and brought it to his mother’s door. This was the first part of his coming of age because, now everyone started to realize that he is the “great king” predicted. The second part of his coming of age is he actually had to fight Soumaoro in battle and this was the biggest part of his coming of age. In this battle Sundiata defeats Soumaoro regains his right to the throne. In all this, Sundiata had to grow up and take responsibility for his age and destiny. So all these actions were in result of his coming of age.
In “Gilgamesh” a man named Gilgamesh who is half man and half god; he confronts many problems from the gods and from nature. In this story Gilgamesh is sent on a journey to find eternal youth plant. He has to overcome ...

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Added: 7/14/2008 01:16:30 PM
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