Over the past decade I have cultivated a love of movies about American teenagers and their experiences of going through life. For some reason, the coming-of-age tale is so interesting to me because of the difference in the journey every film presents. Writing is often a coming-of-age tale in itself, with a problem that one must confront (how to solve a problem and learn a lesson while making the article interesting to read), which means that some of the best writing ever done has come from looking at adolescence. J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem…all of these men have written about the trials and tribulations that come with being a teenager, a fish out of water in the world.
