Coming of age story

Coming-of-age stories as television shows help teenagers better understand the ways of adolescence to Adulthood through these tropes: The Hero’s Journey, Sex as Rite-of-Passage and, First Experience with the Five stages of Grief. I have four TV shows (Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, The O.C) to help me prove these tv shows demonstrate a true coming of age story, I have to analyze each trope from four different groups of teenagers perspective as they go through the same stages of life.

Coming of age is a subgenre for drama; it tells a story finding oneself through the eyes of adolescents as they navigate their way to everyday challenges and facing moral dilemmas that can change a young adult’s life. These problems or issues can form into a coming of age theme. In an article called “Postmodern Adolescent Identities in Contemporary Coming-of-Age Stories” Ebony Daley-Carey, says “Coming-of-age stories have conventionally constructed the development of subjectivity as a linear, cohesive, and ultimately empowering process. Narrative closure is thus typically contingent on the adolescent protagonist’s ability to acquire an agentic form of self-knowledge and integrate productively into the adult world (2). She is saying the only way for adolescents will come to the world. They will have to face their problems as early as teenage years beginning the young adult stage in life.