Slipping by the Rye

I became aware since some time that I like the same kind of novels, the novels in which the main character is young, actually is a teenager like in "The Cather in the Rye" & "Les chercheurs d'os" or even a child like in "To Kill a Mockingbird" & "Le petit prince". Thanks to the wikipedia I knew that those kind of novels got a name in literary criticism and that is Bildungsroman, or more simply "Coming-of-age novels".I remembered Eric Erikson's stages of development, particularly the two stages:1. Identity Vs. Role confusion that occurs between 12 and 18, and2. Intimacy Vs. Isolation that occurs between 18 and 35 years of age. I thought how those stages might be applied to the novels of coming-of-age?Thanks to that habit I practice since years (does anybody taught me that) of writing what I like to search about in Google images and got all those images about the subject, I typed "The Cather in the Rye" in the Google image search and found this:It is a painting by an artist named Dave White and it pictures very good that paragraph that stayed in my mind more than any other paragraph from any other novel that I have read till now:“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me.  And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I...
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