Catch In The Rye And Persepolis: A Literary Analysis

In both novels, Catch in the rye by J.D Salinger and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, there are characters forced to grow up before there mentally ready. Although characters Holden and Marji are substantially completely different, there are contradictingly many things about these characters that are similar, because of the way the narratives in the coming of the age novels affected them and their lives. These narratives are humanization of hero’s and moving beyond the family. A similarity that both characters have is they look up to someone as a hero, although there are various things separating them such as, race, gender, time period, and situation. There is one thing that they are fairly similar with and that is age, During the books there is a point where they are both

This pedestal disappears with many adults who are realistic and realize that these things are either non real or normal people. This is the humanization of heros. Holden and Marji both lose a bit of their childhood when there heros die. Both of them look up to these people and when they die and don't deserve to die both characters are forced to grow up and face the cruel world on their own. We see the death of holden's hero Allie, “he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. […] God, he was a nice kid, though. He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. (5.7)” and he is faced with the idea of death, it can happen to anyone at anytime, and that is a very scary and scaring idea to contemplate as a kid and it would easily cause you to become mature at a time when you may not be ready for that sense of responsibility. We also see this humanization of heros happen to marji when uncle anoosh dies.Once Marjane finds out Uncle Anoosh is dead, she feels lost. She draws a