The Prince Of Los Cocuyos: An Analysis

Reading coming of age stories are always interesting and at times nastolgic. Coming of age stories typically include a young protagonist forced to make a grown decision which is a transition to their first move into adulthood. In a sense, these stories show the protagonist shifting from innocence to gaining experiences. The two coming of age stories that we read in class were “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “The Man Who Was Almost A Man” by Richard Wright. Both being coming of age stories, they have similar features but were different in the sense that one protagonist seemed to have made a shift into adulthood whereas one did not.

Richard Blanco, a famous Cuban-American poet who became the first Latin American, immigrant, and openly gay Inaugural Poet in 2013, wrote a variety of works based off his life and all the things that were going on in it. In Richard Blanco’s, “El Florida Room” and “The First Real San Giving Day”, Blanco provides the readers with a look into his personal life with information about his family and some characteristics of his life. Dealing with many different societal issues due to his culture and even his sexual orientation, Blanco describes what his life was truly like, more specifically geared towards his culture; being Cuban-American. Through his use of a chronological storytelling in his memoir and a reflection on the past in his poem,

Coming of age is an influential part of many people’s lives. They begin to leave behind their innocent childhood views and develop a more realistic view on the world around them as they step forward into adulthood. (Need to add transition) Many authors have a coming of age theme in their books; specifically, Harper Lee portrays a coming of age theme in his book To Kill A Mockingbird. Through the journeys of their childhoods, Jem and Scout lose their innocence while experiencing their coming of age moment, making them realize how unfair Maycomb really is.

People do not always get to have the fairytale life they once dreamed of. Life comes with many struggles, but people can overcome them if they really want to. They choose to follow a certain path in their life, which at times it can be good or bad. In the book, “Tijuana Straits”, by Kem Nunn, the author explains the different life experiences of certain characters in the book and how their life ended up. Unlike a fairytale, he gives the different perspective and point of views of the characters. Nunn gave enough information to know how the character’s lives ended up the way it did. The characters, Fahey, Armando, and Magdalena, were each described with a different persona so that each one sticks out different than the other.

Coming of age means a person is entering adulthood, which is scary because they have to learn how to be independent, start college/family which these can be tough sometimes. Some people don’t realize that we have to face reality and manage our life to be strong and confident. Although entering adulthood sounds fun, it’s full of pressure and obstacles like how Ben in the movie The Graduate.

The novel starts off with, “Sometimes it pays to have rich friends” and it’s shown that he and Gloria rely off the friendships he builds with others, but with the help of the garden, he can escape reality and imagine a new life. Throughout the novel, the story shows how each individual feels trapped and has no real way of escaping. There is imprisonment within oneself because Julio can’t escape, he’s a trapped exile in Spain. Everywhere he travels to, he’s living this life that he doesn’t want to. He leaves Chile and later leaves

What is a coming of age story? A coming of age story is a literature story and film that focuses on the growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. Coming of age stories emphasize the dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. Basically, the protagonist will undergo a troubled search for an adult identity by process of trials, and experiences. Throughout the 20th century, authors seemed to widen the age groups, so the protagonist can start out in their early mid-20s. I personally think, in order to determine the age of the protagonist, the story should be linked with gender, race, social class, and national identity. Kenneth Millard stated “a recurring element of the coming-of-age narrative is the way in which a protagonist’s adult identity is framed by historical events and point of origin and conditioned by social obligations and expectations”.

Since the land that the Spanish prince will be conquering will probably include natives who speak a different language, have different laws, and customs, Machiavelli would warn them that there will be many challenges and conquering will not be easy. There will need to be a lot of, “good fortune as well as great industry to retain them” (Machiavelli, 10).

To “come of age” is the transition from the life you lived before, for example a childhood, to the life you live now, for example, adolescence. The novel I chose is “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, which is about a boy, Miles, leaving Florida and his family to Culver Creek, a boarding school. Miles goes to Culver Creek because he is searching for the “Great Perhaps”, not because his father went there when he was Miles’s age. He transitions from adolescence to adulthood in many events throughout the novel.

This novel is a typical story of a youth who is resisting the inevitable transformation into adulthood, a situation that everyone has to

Aging is a process that all people alive are constantly going through everyday and every year. From the reading “Aging occurs within a social context: one’s social class, education, occupation, gender, and race will determine how one experiences adolescence or old age.” In the United States until a person reaches the age eighteen years old they are considered, to be in school and, are still seen as being a child, and until after high school graduation or eighteen they can bee seen as a man, woman, or adult. In different cultures a child can be considered a man or woman at a younger age. The examples I know off the top of my head are Quinceañera’s and Bar Mitzvahs. Bar Mitzvah’s are used in the Jewish culture and are seen as when a boy turns

How does one leave behind the path of their childhood and step onto that of adulthood? For many, coming-of-age happens through a special ceremony or accomplishment. For others, reaching a certain age is sufficient. But for me, a seemingly unfortunate situation spurred me into adulthood, causing me to gain the maturity and responsibility required for the tasks ahead.

General Statement: The change humans’ minds and emotions undergo overtime is known as ‘coming of age’.

It allows us to have a special inside look on the American immigration, and a special kind of memory choreography which this story exposed us to as readers. The cultural encounter appeared in how immigration emphasized how that the absence of the old geography can be painful, and the absence of the smells and the weather. And that this pain is a continuing presence for the Cubans. We can notice the cultural encounter in the short story when Maximo hears “the long hard thunder of Miami that was so much like the thunder of home that each rumble shattered the morning of his other life” (Menendez, In Cuba I Was a German shepherd, An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents Edited by Prescott.

Adolescentes have many new things to learn before they become adults. Coming of age stories help the reader understand the hardships that this time in one's life may have. These hardships help develop the young into an adult. In the following stories the authors utilize selected detail to convey the development into adulthood.