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An 8 page paper which examines how each short story represents a young man’s initiation or rite of passage. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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authors intention is to effectively present common situations in a way that provokes thought, emotion, and hopefully, added insight. There couldnt be two more diametrically opposed authors than Heinrich
Boll and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boll was an author who flourished in the modernist era of post-World War II Germany while Nathaniel Hawthorne was clearly a product of morally conservative
New England of the nineteenth century. Yet both authors surprisingly considered an identical theme, that of a young mans initiation, in their short stories, Bolls "Like a Bad Dream"
(1956) and Hawthornes "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," which was first published in 1832. While the types of initiation were quite different, Boll and Hawthorne each explored this human rite
of passage through the perspectives of religion, psychology and society. Heinrich Boll was a devout Roman Catholic, who through his novels and short stories, sought to convey to his German
countrymen that idealism was still a major human motivation following the devastating realities that followed the collapse of Adolf Hitlers bloody reign and the end of World War II (Hynes
265). Through the gaze of his "deep moral vision" (Heinrich Boll 1917-1985), Boll was particularly focused on "how events are calculated to catch up with and crush idealistic young
people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "Like a Bad Dream" concerns an unnamed male protagonist (perhaps a calculated attempt to concentrate
on his actions), a building contractor with his father-in-law, who with his wife Bertha, attends a dinner at the Zumpens. Mr. Zumpen is an important local government official who
will be awarding a lucrative contract to the highest bidder, so the protagonist assumes. However, he comes to realize that there is considerably more going on than legitimate bidding
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