The Teenager : The Giver

Adolescence is popularly known to be a very tumultuous stage in a person’s life. In the adolescent stage (also coined the identity vs. role confusion stage by theorist Erik Erikson) bodies are changing rapidly, emotions are unfamiliar and unexplainable, and refraining from succumbing to peer pressure is more challenging than ever.

After Nate had recovered from the brief moment of shock, he asked Julia about Oliver, “So… is he yours? You don’t look old enough to have a kid.”

Jonas opened his eyes and he noticed that he was sitting in a room on a bed. How did I get here, he thought and where is Gabriel? The room that he was in did not look like anything from his other room in his community. There was a table with a chair, a couch. And a weird hole in the wall with pieces of wood in it late were lit on fire. He walked towards it and he got a burst of heat.

"Can I help you, son?" The voice abruptly cut through Jonas' thoughts. He looked up to see an old woman standing on the other side of the gate.

“And that's not all,” Henry smirked, he wouldn't, “she told your father that she wanted to run away.” I glared at him, ohhh, I would love to wipe that smirk off his face! Lushanya gave me the same, your crazy, look as her father. Gosh, she is so much like her father! I thought.

“The Perpetual Adolescent” is an observational piece by Joseph Epstein. He suggests that modern adult acts much more childish than the previous generations of middle aged people. A big part of acting like a younger person is dressing like a younger person. According to Epstein, the dressed down adult is the immature adult, which in turn leads to many adults trying to copy the modern and hip youth culture. This in turn created more relaxed environments across all career fields, leaving less “true” adults. He feels that American now want to stay young forever instead of maturing into the adults of their parent's generations. Epstein believes that this mentality is flawed, leaving the people in positions of power striving

Teens are wild, mad, insane, and occasionally deranged. We’ve all seen it, and if it wasn’t obvious enough then read “The Terrible Teens” by Elizabeth Kolbert. In her essay, she uses various rhetorical devices such as, metaphors, and climatic word order to keep her writing intriguing. She even keeps the essay credible by showing personal examples of her own teens. Throughout Kolbert’s essay, she effectively uses rhetorical devices, and methods of development to help establish the idea that neurology helps to explain teenagers wild behaviour.

“I’m saying I’m sorry that I can’t be what you need.” Her mouth opens to reply. I cover her mouth with a finger, forbidding her to interrupt. “I don’t think I have it in me. I’m not built that way,” I tell her.

As the decades change so do the teens. Teenagers from the 1960’s won’t exactly have the same ways of thinking or ways of speaking. The way of life back then was completely different and that has an impact on teens today. Old ways are thrown out and newer ones are brought in, attitudes change. Advance technology changes the way we interact with others compared to the 1960’s. The health concerns may or may not be the same as the health concerns in the year 2014. With teens changing constantly, how will the next generation of teens be like?

I had meet Sophie a year after Granger and everyone had died. I was depressed and was wandering around aimlessly. It looked like I had lost my purpose in life.

In “How Teenagers Find Themselves”, Charles Q. Choi writes in order to help explain teenagers self- consciousness. Choi wrote “ How Teenagers Find Themselves” to help explain the self-consciousness that teenagers have, and how it got there. In the text it says, “One way we build a sense of self is by reflecting on how others perceive us”. This evidence shows that he is telling us about how we create our own self-consciousness. Also, in “How Teenagers Find Themselves” Choi is helping inform everyone about teenagers self-conscious.

The book, “The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do,” by Lynn E. Ponton talks about different adolescent going through tough times in their lives. Doctor Ponton is the main character who tries to help each individual overcome their obstacles or realize that the way they are acting is affecting them and their parents. The book consist of 15 stories of different adolescents acting out which lead to their decisions. Each chapter focuses on an individual’s case. It explains the patient, the reasons she is working with he or she, and their background that might have led to their decisions. The only thing in common between all the adolescents was that they were all engaging in risky behaviors. Dr. Lynn Ponton gave them advice on how to take healthy risk instead of unhealthy risk that might change their lives forever. Not only did she give advice to the teens but also to the parent(s) on how to deal with their kid’s actions and communicating with them as well.

Teenagers are more than capable of achieving great tasks in the future as well as causing great destruction with every skill stapled in their mind as they grow. Good and evil will determine the effects of which path a young mind its taught so that’s why parents must educated well with good intensions for a better future. The age of a teenager shows history how it transformed the world including the United States by family values, the high school, and dangerous adolescences etc. What teenagers did was start a fashion changing the world and its rules, becoming rebellious toward their parents values for

The movie thirteen is a raw psychodrama directed by Catherine Hardwicke is based on the life of a young teenage girl, Tracy Freeland whom catapults from pre adolescence/childhood to a wild and rebellious thirteen year old girl. Filmed in Los Angeles, Tracey and her mother’s relationship are put to the test when she befriends Evie. Evie is a popular girl from junior high school who introduces her to the world of sex, drugs and self-mutilation. We see a physical and psychological change in Tracey almost overnight, as her kinship with Evie transforms into a toxic relationship. Tracey’s early traumatic life experiences, manifests into a co-morbidity of depression and borderline personality disorder that affects her ability to cope with an

Who are you? This question could be exceedingly intricate to answer if you were to ask an adolescent. Teens are experiencing countless changes in their development, which is why it is such a significant time for them. During this time teenagers develop their sense of self. Film has helped portray some of the changes that occur during this evolving developmental period. For this paper, I will be describing the differences between two adolescent films to depict differences in developing the self. Some differences I will cover include types of self, Erickson’s Identity Crisis, Marcia’s Identity Status Interview theory, and culture over time.(Arnett, 2013)