SOURCE: "'And Then the Child Becomes a Man': Three Initiation Stories of John Steinbeck," in John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction, edited by R. S. Hughes, Twayne, 1989, pp. 181-8.
In the following essay, Satyanarayana examines the theme of initiation in "The Raid," The Red Pony, and "Flight."
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