A Broken Beginning: 'Pan’s Labyrinth' and the End of Childhood

'Pan’s Labyrinth' has been intermittently described as a coming-of-age story, because of the protagonist’s youth, but this is profoundly inaccurate.

Pan’s Labyrinth Print By Drew Struzan

by Lucy Palmer

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Stories of youth are, more often than not, framed by change. Adolescence is the part of life most associated with development, as …