The Catcher in the Rye and Brown Girl, Brownstones

Selina Boyce and Holden Caulfield are the hero andthe heroine of this thesis. The two adolescents comefrom different backgrounds, different families andeven from different ethnicities. The things theyhave in common, though, are not less significant:they both live in New York and they both have tostruggle with the problems of adolescence. In theirphase of physical and mental growth theseadolescents are going through various stages ofdealing with the influence of their new level theyenter after their innocent lives as children.Experience versus innocence is what makes the phaseof adolescence so confusing and the adults-to-beneed to find ways of getting through and over thesecrises. This is the point of separation for our twoheroes. This is the point where the differencebetween black and white comes in.

Autorentext
Mag. Gülsen Terzio lu, born in Austria in 1980. After completingher studies in German, English and American Language andLiterature at the Univ. of Innsbruck and UCL she worked as aGerman teacher and translator. Now she is an English teacher inTurkey and writes her doctoral thesis titled African-Americansand the death penalty in the U.S.

Klappentext
Selina Boyce and Holden Caulfield are the hero and the heroine of this thesis. The two adolescents come from different backgrounds, different families and even from different ethnicities. The things they have in common, though, are not less significant: they both live in New York and they both have to struggle with the problems of adolescence. In their phase of physical and mental growth these adolescents are going through various stages of dealing with the influence of their new level they enter after their innocent lives as children. Experience versus innocence is what makes the phase of adolescence so confusing and the adults-to-be need to find ways of getting through and over these crises. This is the point of separation for our two heroes. This is the point where the difference between black and white comes in.