Selina Boyce and Holden Caulfield are the hero andthe heroine of this thesis. The two adolescents comefrom different backgrounds, different families andeven from different ethnicities. The things theyhave in common, though, are not less significant:they both live in New York and they both have tostruggle with the problems of adolescence. In theirphase of physical and mental growth theseadolescents are going through various stages ofdealing with the influence of their new level theyenter after their innocent lives as children.Experience versus innocence is what makes the phaseof adolescence so confusing and the adults-to-beneed to find ways of getting through and over thesecrises. This is the point of separation for our twoheroes. This is the point where the differencebetween black and white comes in.