Rite of Passage: Difference between revisions

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== Fictional Rites ==

* The decision of gender in ''[[Simoun]]''.

 

* For the wolves in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', the rite of passage is to bring an elk home for dinner. Heffer, being an adopted steer, misinterprets this and brings over a living, female elk home as a date.

* Francis X. Bushlad's tribe in ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' has three options, equally valid: either the ancestral strategy of slaying a mighty and dangerous beast, or the slightly more contemporary options of buying out a major corporation in a hostile takeover, or amassing a stock portfolio worth $500,000.

 

== [[Real Life]] Rites ==

* Some people consider being bullied at school as something you have to deal with and learn how to defend themselves instead of always running to an adult for help and by standing up for yourself, you grow up and learn to be independent when being threatened. This may have been fine decades ago, but with the rise of social networking and the aggression in children and teenagers rising, adults can't brush off bullying as a rite of passage anymore.

* Certain symbolic tools, like a rifle (or any other kind of weapon), a computer, a pocketknife, a car (as mentioned above) or at least a driver's licence, etc can mark passage into adulthood, and responsibility for the associations that comes with such things.

 

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