Discuss the “coming of age” theme in two of the following stories: Nash Candelaria’s “The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne,” Denise Chavez’s “The Last of the Menu Girls,” and Philip Roth’s “Conversion of the Jews.”

Discuss the “coming of age” theme in two of the following stories: Nash Candelaria’s “The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne,” Denise Chavez’s “The Last of the Menu Girls,” and Philip Roth’s “Conversion of the Jews.”