"The Coming of Age Experience" is a very significant period in life because people have to continue to find themselves and explore who they are by experiencing rough circumstances in life, while being subjected to an awakening of a bigger picture of life outside their own small world. ... As an individual grows physically and spiritually, and cognitively, there is a commencement or an awakening in which a person begins to not only have a mental picture of themselves in a certain situation, but in addition, how other people affect them and how others are also affected. ... The awakening is li...

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This "response is, perhaps , part of his awakening- as is the shuddering trauma throughout his voyage 'beyond the infinite'" (Kolker 666). ... After a psychedelic transition through a black hole, Bowman arrives in the "Jupiter Room", where the aftermath of Bowman's awakening and new awareness takes place. ...

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