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Write a careful comparison of two passages: show how Edmund Talbot's 'rite of passage' develops in the first half of the text.
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Write a careful comparison of two passages: show how Edmund Talbot's 'rite of passage' develops in the first half of the text. In William Golding's Rites of Passage we are taken on an adventure told through the journal of the young aristocrat, Edmund Talbot and by a wretched parson, Robert James Colly. Not only does Edmund go on a journey to Australia for the first time but goes through a 'rite of passage' himself, along the way. On the first day of the journey when Edmund arrives into his confined, new environment, he is quite unaware of what life is going to be like on a ship. He is very arrogant in the way that he demands to see the captain as soon as the atmosphere of the ship doesn't suite his liking. "Lord Sir!" said he. (Wheeler) "You'll soon get used to that!" "I do not wish to get...
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