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victorman
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High School - 10th Grade
to what extent is The House on Mango Street a bildungsroman (coming of age story)?
bildungsroman is defined in this question as "the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a dfined social order. The growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been described as both 'an apprenticeship to life' and a 'search for meaningful existence within society.'"
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