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Comparative analysis of The House on Mango Street and The Perks of Being a Wallflower traces how Esperanza and Charlie confront societal upheaval, cultural fluctuation, and unfamiliar social phenomena. It connects psychological and moral growth to coming-of-age narrative theory, emphasizing how external pressures can produce depression, frustration, and identity confusion, while creative expression becomes a route to self-construction.","Chapter I  \nRepresentation of Adolescents and Setbacks to Adaptation  \nThe study examines identity formation between adolescence to adulthood and it is a transitional time for children to shift from self centric to collective world. The research undergoes comparative study in The House on Mango Street and The Perks of Being Wallflower. Both the novel present child characters and observe their behaviors. The characters are in between adolescent to adulthood period and both of them experience world and struggle for forming identity. The research explores an individual development from childhood to adulthood. Both child characters experience two different worlds and have different social experience and interact with external world to form personal self. In the novels, Esperanza and Charlie experience crucial period while interacting with external world and their transformation in psychology and morality.  \nAs the novels introduce protagonists Esperanza and Charlie, both of them have several similarities. Due to the societal upheaval and multicultural fluctuation, both of them are suffocated by the external world when they are in transition period. Along with interaction with external world, the young encounter expected and unexpected social phenomena. As such phenomena guide and shape them to construct personal self; many aspects are unfamiliar to them. Unable to experience with unfamiliar cases in public space, they are confused and suffocated. They always encounter a kind of surprise and fear in their mind. With several questions in their mind, they are unable to find answer. The gap between desired world and reality causes depression, frustration and suffocation. Both of them are unable to decide and determine decision which are true and fact.  \nThis kind of experience amasses several questions in their mind but unanswered. The researcher employs coming of the age narrative theory which discusses inner development from childhood to maturity. Tobia Boes enumerates idea that coming-of-age narrative examines character, setting, journey and hand experience. The process of becoming mature is explained in coming of age narrative. It is based on individual's self-knowledge and how is the knowledge gained through empirical experience and social interaction. Self-knowledge is acquired through individual role and dialogue with the society. The theory introduces and garners idea that assume process of becoming adulthood in which period an individual exercise family, society, friends circle and other many social aspects which shape knowledge, experience and personal self. Bias argues:  \nThe image of man in the process of becoming and situates its protagonist on the threshold between different historical eras. The hero emerges along with the world and he reflects the historical emergence of the world itself. The dominant character in Coming-of-Age narrative is no longer within an epoch. It is on the border between two epochs,“at the transition point from one to the other. This transition is accomplished in him and through him. It is a foundation of the world is changing, and man must change along with them.(6)  \nThis theory follows the characters from childhood to adulthood as they pass through physical, mental, emotional, and moral changes. The narrators express their experience along with the narration of the events in the novels. Esperanza in The House on Mango Street and Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower form their personal identities along with relative social ground and find different worlds.  \nThe study discusses focusing on shifting identity and behavioral changes take place between childhood and adulthood. Both of the novels The House on Mango Street and The Perks of Being a Wallflower project young characters who are inbetween the two stages of human life. Both of them are similar age group and experience similar world. 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