A coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age"). Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past.

 E.g. Great Expectations , The Kite Runner, Gone with the Wind，etc.

An initiation story, in its simplest sense, is a story about the moral and psychological growth of a young man or young woman.

 

Point of view  

* First-person narration from the viewpoint of an innocent child --- curiosity, objectivity and better observation and illumination. 

Narrator

A reliable narrator: authoritative description of fictional truthAn unreliable narrator: an innocent narrator (not understand all the complicated and the difficult of the world), e.g. Huckleberry Finn

A naïve narrator: deceptive, self-deceptive, cheated or mad 

Epiphany

A sudden revelation of truth about life inspired by a seemingly trivial incident;

A usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something;

An illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure;

A moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way

 

Irony

Verbal irony is a figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite.

Dramatic irony creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience knows to be true.

Situational irony exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.