Compare the Theme of a Young Person Growing up in Two or more Literary Works You Have Studied

Growing up is a current issue nowadays with children and youngsters seeming to enter the adult world earlier and earlier and having to take on the responsibilities of adults. When does a child become an adult? For many the right answer is that it has nothing to do with age; it is determined by the behaviour. In this essay I will not go into the issue of when a child turns into an adult but rather think about how the issue is treated in "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger and "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby.
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