If You Kiss a Boy and Kate The Great

If You Kiss A Boy and Kate The Great.

“If You Kiss A Boy” and “Kate The Great”. Two amazing story’s, they are both coming of age story’s but in a different way. In these two story’s there is shown confusion, immaturity, and puberty, all in different ways.                                                                      

These coming of age story’s are bildungsromens. A bildungsromen is a genre in which it focuses on the growth of a teen from adolescence to adulthood. In these two story’s it tells about every teen in coming of age is feeling and they put things in which you can relate and agree with. Teens start to change, have problems with their parents, and situations in where they feel helpless and with no way out.

“If You Kiss A Boy” is a wonderful story in which focuses on a teens mind, discovering his sexuality, and making you want to know more about him. This story is about a teen named Joe discovering his true sexuality, not knowing how to react, he feels scared and confused and he messes up his friendship with his best friend . But Joe doesn’t want to end his friendship , so he accepts the fact that he is gay and hopes for the best.

Every teen at this age always have problems and confusion in their lives just like Joe the main character he is a confused teen, just as confused as Jamal, his best friend, after they kissed in the movies. Joe not knowing how to express himself sits still helplessly in his house wondering what would happen the next day in school when he would see Jamal.                                                                                                                                                    At this point of view we can say that Joe is confused and doesn’t know what to do in this situation, like many teens this age, they have a bad and pointless communication with their parents.

Every teen goes through this phase in their life, it is complicated and many teens react different to it, puberty. Joe  before going to bed thinks of what sexuality he really is and is aware that he has had thoughts that most teens don’t think. Joe not only has already passed through confusion he now realizes he is going through puberty because he is almost sure of what sex he like’s. He wakes up in the morning not hungry he still can’t keep his mind off what happened the day before. Joe goes to school and tries to make contact with Jamal, Jamal is avoids him.

Like puberty there are some that haven’t passed through it and can be immature. Immature people are not likely to understand when a person is going through puberty and they make it a hard time for that teen. Joe sits in the table he always sits in, and an immature teen named “Curt” finds out about Joe’s confusion and uses it against him. Then Joe explodes in fury and punches Curt in the face.