- Contain characteristics of the novelistic Bildungsroman and its modern literary variants, the childhood initiation tale and the coming-of-age or the rites-of-passage story
- includes not only teen entertainments but also social problem films and more personal, quasi-autobiographical works
- dramatize situations and events that bear upon the child's initiation into new domains of psychosocial experience and the adolescent's and postadolescent's encounters with the pleasures and perils of modern life
Robert McKee - Story
Part of Maturation plot
Norman Friedman
Plots of Character — in which the narrative’s protagonist undergoes a change of moral character.
- The Maturing Plot — The classic coming-of-age tale in which the protagonist passes into adulthood, either literally or on some figurative level. Examples include Sixteen Candles, Stand by Me, and Almost Famous.
Kate Erbland
- high school hijinks
- making own family/accepting your family
- falling in love for first time
- social outliers
- popular people having hidden depths
- popular vs unpopular
- apprehension of future
- change from school to university
- world weariness
Aaron Weiss
- looking for acceptance
- rite of passage
Dusty McGowan
- Underdog
- Dreamgirl
- Older mentor
- quirky characters
- unexpected moments
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