Upon my first reading of the two student papers I could tell that "Initiation into Adulthood" does not conform to the convention of writing about literature discussed in this chapter as "Hard Choices" does. Grammatically speaking neither of the student papers was inadequate. "Initiation into Adulthood" simply did not fit the "prompt" and was a more basic paper.
Midway through the second paragraph of "Initiation into Adulthood" I knew it was the less sophisticated of the two papers. The dead giveaway and most obvious error was the entire paper was a general, and boring, plot summary of e…
