Practice Essay

You have read excerpts from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nineteen Minutes. The coming of age theme topic is very popular in literature. This topic refers to an adolescent boy or girl going through challenging experiences and learning to be more successful in adulthood.
Understanding how theme topics grow into universal themes is very important.  Use your practice to take the seed topic coming of age and making it a theme that represents both texts:

In a multi-paragraph essay, discuss a similarity and a difference related to how this theme is developed in these two passages.