... to the initiation process, Henry and Holden transfer from juvenile to mature behavior with different rates and struggles, as demonstrated by their unique actions and thoughts at various checkpoints throughout Red Badge of Courage and Catcher in the Rye. Each of the novices struggle psychologically during their novel's separation stage as their location exacerbates their insecure conditions; however, Holden's stubbornness ... the true path. The connections to the initiation process must be distorted for a non-adolescent to fit the system, however; many parallels exist between Henry and H...

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