What do you think of coming of age stories?

[5wk5Essays]

A person goes from naive to seeing how they lack experience. In the story "where are you going where have you been? She discovers ahe still needs her family and learns her lesson too late. By Joyce Oates, http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/wgoing2.html

[PeterL]

I have read more coming of age stories, than I had any need for. In a sense, all of life is coming of some age.

[EAP]

Coming of age is my favorite genre, if you can call it that. Tellingly, not many can handle writing them, and in the hands of the wrong author, it can become an absolute nightmare.

[emily655321]

I've never developed a taste for them, as a generalized group. I read a lot of them when I was 12, because I liked reading about people older than me. But when I was actually "coming of age," I found them patronizing and off-the-mark. Now that I've "come" (so to speak), I find them, frankly, rather dull and cliché.

[AimusSage]

I don't generally care about coming of age stories. One notable exception is The Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. In a way The Count of Monte Cristo is a coming of age story, Edmond Dantes starts out as a naive fool to being the Count of Monte Cristo, a Mature, high character, experienced and knowledgable.