Compare what these two novels say about coming of age. Like all essays, this one must posit a thesis, clearly articulate
While To Kill a Mockingbird is many things—a Southern Gothic ghost story, the story that many lawyers insist inspired them to go into the profession, and a story of civil rights and race relations at a particular moment in U.S. history—it is also Scout’s coming-of-age story. Like Jem and Dill, Scout grows up over the course of the novel, and learns to act in a more “adult” and “lady-like” way. As we follow Scout’s progress, the novel asks us to consider how we can grow up to become adults while retaining our childhood faith in fairness and justice. We sense that the faith in fairness and justice has been lost before The Catcher in the Rye begins. Nonetheless, Catcher also shows us the (rapid) progress of the protagonist from (relative) innocence to a position of adult knowledge. While we never see Holden being as innocent as the (much younger) Scout, we do see him attempt to avoid turning into a “phony,” the main fault of adults.

please compare To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher In The Rye what these two novels say about coming of age. Like all essays, this one must posit a thesis, clearly articulated in a thesis statement, and you must use specific textual evidence in support of your thesis.

Reference the two novels: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger