Coming of age is a time of trials and triumphs in a young adolescent’s life. It involves many obstacles that need to be over come in order to become an adult. However obstacles are not the only things that a youth will encounter. Through the journey they will happen upon successes and triumphs that will add to the shaping of who they are to become. One can easily assume that the events taking place …showed first 75 words of 3919 total…

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