Ayn Rand's 'Coming Of Age'

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Coming Of Age- The Book Allegiant desmstarets comng of age by having the character Tris, Tobais to cope with the reality of leaving the city to go beyond the wall. This was later reaveled as a hoax and discovere they were merley a part of an expirement. All of the suddent the charachter were for forced to adapt out of thier childhood into adulthood in just a couple of hours. No one in the group was prepared for what was outside the wall. The group had to learn to live with this new reality, and it was thier curiosity which drove them to go outside the walls. This Coming of age can be applyed to todays world and todays kids going from childhood to adulthood. In todays world if something happens to your parents and there is a certin death in

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