The novel, Ordinary People, written by Judith Guest, is a story about a teenager named Conrad Jarret going from being a young boy to an adult within a year. It is also about how Conrad ascends from worse to better. A year or so before the novel begins Conrad’s brother Buck is killed in a boating accident. A while after the accident Conrad becomes depressed and had problems with his mother so he attempts to commit suicide. This book is a Bildungsroman because from the time Conrad goes from his suicide attempt to the end of the book Conrad fully changes into a normal teenager. A Bildungsroman is a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual develo
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