The Bug in "Black Hole"

This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.

As my fifteen-year-old roommate falls to pieces, panic rises in my chest like a leaping flame. She lets out muffled screams and chilling sobs as she buries her face against the pillow. I kneel beside her and whisper reassurances. “You’ll be okay.” “No one will hurt you.” I pray she hears me but I know she doesn’t. She is trapped somewhere else - somewhere she revisits every day, like a bad song stuck in her head for life.

Thirteen is a portrayal of a teenage girl growing up in an impoverished home, with no true parental figures, searching for acceptance and love. While the world around her seems steady, Tracy Freeland feels alienated from this stability. Raised by her alcoholic mother and her mother's drug addicted boyfriend, Tracy feels lost and angry. For a time, Tracy finds solace in school, excelling academically and habitually hiding behind naive innocence and a modest form of dress. However, the dawning of puberty and the start of seventh grade leave Tracy with a wavering self worth and a desire to leave childish ways behind. Determined to gain the attention of the popular, Evie Zamora, Tracy convinces her mom to buy her a new, sexier wardrobe and begins her slow descent into a life of theft, drugs, alcohol, and sex. Throughout her journey, Tracy finds herself lost and alone, wondering who she is apart from her dysfunctional lifestyle. There are pivotal moments when Tracy reaches out to both her mother and father, only to be met with disinterest and disregard. More often than not, Tracy's mom, Melanie is too busy with her own recovery efforts, her job, and her boyfriend to give Tracy the attention she is desperately seeking. Though Melanie is a constant in Tracy's life, scenes regularly depict her as being a pushover, allowing Tracy too much freedom and not enough discipline. On the other hand, Tracy's father is absent from all areas of Tracy's life, constantly cancelling plans at the last minute. In one central scene, Melanie reaches out to him for help and when he finally shows up he merely dismisses Tracy's needs in favor of his own career.

The teenagers realize they are still children, who still need to grow up and still need their moms and dads. The narrator makes it very clear at the end of the story that the boys have realized that they are not really ready for the real world, and that they still have a lot of growing up to do. “I wanted to get out of the car and retch; I wanted to go home to my parents’ house and crawl into bed” (128).

In this essay, I am going to compare the similarities and differences of teenage life in The Outsiders to the life of teenagers now. The life of The Outsiders and the life of teenagers now are different in some ways and are similar in other ways. The Outsiders had different technology and social media, similar daily lives, and looked and wore different things then what we do now. They didn’t have much technology as we do now, they used payphones and a 300 series phones, but and now we use cell phones and have a lotlots of social media. They had similar daily lives like we do. We both hangout with our friends after school, eat, and slept, and had daily problems to solve in our daily lives. But the difference in our daily

Sonny has a “rough” time where he finds himself in “jail” for “narcotics trafficking” (208). Skloot reveals how not having a guardian and guidance leads someone to turn to occupations they would have never committed to before. Also, she emphasizes how authority is needed in a child so they may stay in the right path of life. Also, Deborah becomes so upset she cries out for help: “‘...Just being sad and crying to myself..Why, Lord, did you take my mother when I needed her so much?’” (218). Deborah changed from a happy child to someone in desperate need of a parent when she lost her mother. Skloot reveals how the requisite fostering of a parent lifts the children up in awful

Melinda Sordino was just a young teenage girl trying to have some fun. Now, she is loathed by afar for something nobody understands. During a summer party, Melinda drunkenly fumbled for the phone and dialed the cops. As she enters her freshman year of high school, her friends refuse to talk to her, and she escapes into the dark forests of her mind. “I am Outcast” (Anderson 4). But something about that party was not right. Something she tried not to relive but to forget. “I have worked so hard to forget every second of that stupid party, and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can’t tell them what really happened. I can’t even look at that part of myself” (Anderson 28). Depression is a

To begin, the story takes place in a high-school setting. High school students, going through many adolescent changes,

It was a fine, summer, Saturday when everything changed for a young teenager named Miller Frederick. School had already started for Miller and he was at a new school. That summer, his family had moved from Pensacola, Florida to Dewitt, Michigan so Miller didn’t have many friends. He lived in a very rural area so he didn’t have many neighbors he could hang out with. Miller had just gotten back from his first day at his new school and he became friends with another new kid from Germany. His name was Reginald Kleinhans. Surprisingly enough, they had a lot in common. They both loved basketball, horror movies, and writing.

The book takes place in a dystopian society where depression and suicide run rampant. Teen Suicide had become an epidemic which was thought to be a behavioural contagion by Psychologists. In an effort to stop the outbreak, some school districts implemented a possible cure, The Program. All teenagers were constantly watched for symptoms of depression, if they were identified as a risk handlers would be sent to bring them to The Program, which utilized methods that would erase infected memories (memories that are thought to be the cause of the patient's depression). After The Program the returners were given new identities and were completely stripped of their originality.

Many philosophers have said that the ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ The eyes can show a person’s true personality. Not their clothes, facial expressions, or how they hold themselves, but looking into another’s eyes will show one’s soul. But what if their personality was not found in their eyes, but on their body in the form of a mutation? As found in Black Hole, the town’s teens have contracted an STD they call “the bug.” Each teen that acquires it grows an external mutation. This can especially be seen with some of the main characters: Keith, Rob, and Chris. Keith grows appendages that look like tadpoles on his chest. Rob has another mouth on his neck. Chris sheds her skin. Each of these mutations indicate what this person is actually like. The external mutations of Keith, Rob, and Chris symbolize the characters’ inner selves.

In the life of a teenager, negative experiences are sometimes inevitable. As adolescents transition into young adults, there i’s no doubt that they would sometimes feel down because of a few traumatizing experiences. These negative experiences could range from a whole variety of reasons. In fact, sometimes adolescents feels as if they have no control over the situation which is evident with the character Melinda in the book Speak. On the other hand, teens are sometimes subjected to very sudden harsh and traumatic changes in one’s life which they have to cope with and learn from which can be seen with Andy and Shane in the book Skud. Along with that, there were and still are other teenage

The author’s topic is about a teenager name Susanna Kaysen. At 18 she voluntarily turned herself into McLean Hospital.

The sociologists suggested that the “Bug” phenomenon in the 60’s was seen as countercultural and that small is beautiful. These values could still be leveraged in modern American society where there is a move to standarize. The Beetle could still be counterculatural and used in the modern quest for individuality.

Black holes should probably not be called black holes. In fact, black holes are anything but empty space. Black holes are a great amount of matter packed and squeezed into a very small area. The result of this amount of matter squeezed into a small area results in a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.