“Oranges are Not the Only Fruit” can be interpreted as a coming of age novel or as a post modern text, which deconstructs the divisions between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy and masculinity and femininity. How far do you agree with these inter

... "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" can be interpreted as a coming of age novel or as a post modern text, which deconstructs the divisions between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy and masculinity and femininity. How far do you agree with these interpretations? Many critics have argued whether 'Oranges' is primarily a Bildungsroman or a post modern text. A Bildungsroman or 'coming of age' novel is defined as "a novel of formation: a novel of someone's growth from childhood to maturity."1 The growth process has been described as both "an apprenticeship to life" and a "search for meaningful existence within society."2 Postmodernism the second interpretation of the text covers a wide range of disciplines; it is largely a reaction to the belief of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. There are a number of central characteristics that help us to understand the foundations of post modern text, for example

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