Defining
This term describes a novel about a character’s growth from youth to adulthood.
What is a Bildungsroman?
This young wizard matures through seven novels and ultimately defeats Voldemort.
Who is Harry Potter?
In The Catcher in the Rye, this city is where Holden Caulfield wanders for three days.
What is New York City?
This type of struggle between a person and their inner emotions is central to most Bildungsromans.
What is internal conflict?
This Pixar film follows a girl named Riley and her emotions as she moves to San Francisco.
What is Inside Out?
A Bildungsroman typically ends when the protagonist achieves this: a sense of maturity and self-awareness.
What is personal growth or self-realisation?
This narrator of Jane Eyre grows from a mistreated orphan to an independent woman.
Who is Jane Eyre?
In Great Expectations, Pip moves from this marshland region to London.
What is Kent?
Symbolising the loss of innocence, this object in Lord of the Flies breaks when order collapses.
What is the conch shell?
This 1985 film by John Hughes puts five teens in Saturday detention, revealing their personal struggles.
What is the Breakfast Club?
This country is credited with the origin of the Bildungsroman genre.
What is Germany?
This 14-year-old girl in Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple finds her voice after years of abuse.
Who is Celie?
Persepolis is a graphic memoir and Bildungsroman set during the Islamic Revolution in this country.
What is Iran
The red hunting hat in The Catcher in the Rye symbolises this aspect of Holden’s personality.
What is individuality or nonconformity?
This 2017 Oscar-winning film traces Chiron’s journey through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
What is Moonlight?