Gone By Michael Grant

“Gone” is a coming of age novel written by Michael Grant. When someone comes of age, they go on a journey from being a child to growing into an adult. This transition requires enormous amounts of responsibility and courage. “Gone” is a story where many different children are forced to grow up faster than they ever expected. Without adults, they need to learn how to survive on their own with no one to help them figure it out except each other. “Gone” shows this theme of coming of age by the children having to maintain order, care for the basic needs of themselves and others, and act like adults.
The children in this book have to learn to maintain order by themselves. Maintaining order is a difficult thing to do in a world with adults. Now that there are only children it is even harder. Sam Temple and his peers at Perdido Beach are able to make sure everyone is safe. But when Caine and the students of …show more content…
In a normal world, even the thought of having a child take on the responsibilities of an adult is almost unbelievable. Clearly the children in “Gone” aren’t in a normal situation and they all have to take on the role of adults. When these teens are faced with evil like Caine and the Darkness, they have to fight on their own. These children don’t have adult role models to ask for help anymore. Coming of age is an important theme in “Gone” because each character has their own coming of age moment. Each character has to mature either physically or mentally because of their new environment. Teenagers today go through a coming of age in a very different way. In our world, the problems teens face are passing their driving exam or going to prom. In “Gone”, teenagers have to face life or death situations every day. They grow up in a world where every decision you make could end or save your life. Coming of age is hard enough on teenagers today and it is unimaginably harder for the teenagers in