Coming of Age in Literature

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This paper compares the coming of age within three works - "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera and the film "Sugar Cane Alley," written and directed by Euzhan Palcy. It analyzes the political and social structure in each of these works and describes how they affect the relationships between the younger and older characters.

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"The shifts in lightness and heaviness in this novel are complex and at times difficult to understand, and the political element that is seen here is also more complex and in some ways more specific than what is seen in The Kite Runner or Sugar Cane Alley. In this novel, the events of what is known as the Prague Spring serve as backdrop, a time when the Soviet military occupied the city and made it known that the people of Poland were not in control of their own destinies. Tomas had once condemned the Communists and so is asked to leave the city, and he and Tereza travel to Switzerland. When they later return to Prague, it is with the knowledge that they will never be allowed to leave again."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Penguin 2003.
• Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. New York: Perennial Classics, 1999.
• Palcy, Euzhan. Sugar Cane Alley. Orion Classics, 1983.
• "Sugar Cane Alley." Caribbean Cinema. http://athena.english.vt.edu/~carlisle/Postcolonial/Carib_Cinema/sugarcane.html.

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