a rite of passage occurs when a member of a societya group of people who are all interdependent and interconnected by their cultural connections; they live in patterned ways and their behaviors in various circumstances are well established; for instance in the Western world most people adhere to lines (cue) at bus stops, or movie theaters, or when checking out at a grocery store; patterned and regular ways of doing things are expected and accepted or group has been transformed in some way; for instance from a boy to manhood, a girl to womanhood, a boy to a warriora fighter or soldier, especially one in former times, who was brave and experienced in fighting; a person engaged in warfare More, a woman to a wife; marriage is a rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood in some societies; graduation, first communions, baptisms, and bar-mitzvahs are all rites of passage
