Diploma Thesis from the year 1991 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: Adolescence is the period or process of change of an immature, young person towards the height of his physical and psychological development. However, the spiritual and mental maturation is too often overlooked during the upbringing of the growing adolescent. Our three young hereos David Kern ("Pigeon Feathers"), Francis Marion Tarwater (The Violent Bear It Away) and John Grimes (Go, Tell It on the Mountain) are unpreparedly confronted with social injustice and search for a remedy...