Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

As verbalized by the diarist Anne Frank herself, “‘Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands’” (Goodreads 1). Coming of age is a process depicted through movies and novels through the Bildungsroman plot line. The protagonist, in this form of a plot line, has to face society and its difficulties. The protagonist inclines to have an emotional loss, which triggers the commencement of the journey itself. The story tends to end on the main character being enlightened or also enlightening the society around him/herself. Although To Kill a Mockingbird, The Crucible, and Pleasantville have elements that may suppose the antipode, they are all an example of a Bildungsroman plot because of their connection to the coming of age. To summarize the works, To Kill a Mockingbird fixates on the early 1930s, when the Depression was raging through the United States and also the rest of the world. It hones in on a girl and her lifetime growing up as a tomboy in a well-revered family [to start off]. The Crucible takes a look at the late 1690s, when superstitions led men to insanity in the Eastern Coast of America. It covers most of the Salem Trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. Pleasantville takes place much closer to the modern day than the rest: the 1990s and the 1950s. This movie involves a

In all three works, the protagonist comes of age and realizes his/her true identity and purpose in the world. At the circumstances, a Bildungsroman best represents the three works because it looks at an overall perspective, unlike the other plotlines, in which only aspects of them may show up in the story. Anne Frank’s words continue to ring in the lives of people and characters facing the world in their own Bildungsroman