Character development - when the reader learns more about the character at hand as the piece progresses - is a key element to any piece of literature. A well-developed character is one that has been thoroughly characterised, with many traits shown in the narrative. Character development is very important in character-driven literature, where stories focus not on events, but on individual personalities. Both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger can be considered character driven literature, as both have teenage boys, which readers watch grow, as their protagonists;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features Huck Finn and The Catcher in the Rye features Holden Caulfield. Although both novels have very different settings and few cultural connections, both can be seen as coming of age
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First off, on the surface, these two novels would not appear to be similar, but if one looks past the plot of each novel, a realization can be made that the similarities lie in Holden and Huck as main characters. The novels each have very different settings, therefore the events that take place throughout are very different in a literal way but shape Huck and Holden as young men in the same way. Huck finds himself on a journey down the Mississippi accompanying a runaway slave named Jim. On the contrary, Holden finds himself roaming New York City in effort to kill time before he can return home after being expelled from his prestigious boarding school. Although the Mississippi River in the 1800s and New York City in the 1940s are two completely different scenes, both provide Huck and Holden with scenes to explore, literally and figuratively. They are both literally on explorations, they both have an idea of where they want to end up- Huck wants to reach a free state
First off, on the surface, these two novels would not appear to be similar, but if one looks past the plot of each novel, a realization can be made that the similarities lie in Holden and Huck as main characters. The novels each have very different settings, therefore the events that take place throughout are very different in a literal way but shape Huck and Holden as young men in the same way. Huck finds himself on a journey down the Mississippi accompanying a runaway slave named Jim. On the contrary, Holden finds himself roaming New York City in effort to kill time before he can return home after being expelled from his prestigious boarding school. Although the Mississippi River in the 1800s and New York City in the 1940s are two completely different scenes, both provide Huck and Holden with scenes to explore, literally and figuratively. They are both literally on explorations, they both have an idea of where they want to end up- Huck wants to reach a free state