Literature is rife with coming of age stories. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Things Fall Apart, Catcher in the Rye and a myriad others all have the “growing up” theme in them.
Just recently, I finished reading Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. The novel is a touching picaresque jaunt through the summer of a twelve-year-old boy in Green Town, IL. Douglas, the boy, is like any young boy, wanting adventure and fun, seeing magic in everything and being often faced with situations with which he suddenly sees differently than before.
