Understanding Teen Angst's The Last Song

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.

My story deals with heavy topics that teens may relate to. One of my closest friends, Alaska, suffers from depression. When she dies in a car accident, my other friends and I can’t help but wonder if the “accident” was actually a suicide. Many teens out there feel the same as Alaska and could, perhaps, find comfort in reading about her.

Music is an art. It is combined in a way to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expressing of emotion; the lyrics help you connect and cope with certain situations you’re experiencing. I chose to analyze the country song, “Good In Goodbye” by Carrie Underwood. Carrie Underwood wrote this song for a past love whom she sees years later outside a restaurant they used to go to and recalls the good in her heartache and pain. This song is very close to my heart, it helped me when I was going through a heartbreak. I now realize why this song’s meaning is worth knowing. Country music’s atmosphere is mostly nostalgic and it always has a great message or a life lesson behind it.

Victor Kelleher's book Taronga is an inspiring book about a boy barely a teenager who manages to find his style through the 'Last Days'. The 'Last Days' is as what the title displays, all the same, it will have the teen readers wanting more. Kelleher's book Taronga exhibits the life of a young teenager who learns to discover himself through the dangers around him. Taronga firmly discusses the fight for survival of not just the main character, but also another character, his teenage friend Ellie. Kelleher’s book ‘Taronga’ engages teenagers through the dangers that lurk in the book, showing the subject of ‘survival’ through the darkness and mystery of the adult characters. Kelleher displays how young teenagers can have such powerful voices

For example, Smash Mouth writes,”i ain’t the sharpest tool in shed/ She was looking kind was looking kind of dumb with her finger in her thumb.”(Smash Mouth) This lyric describes the singer’s personality. He might not be the smartest person and people might judge him, but The singer is smart enough to make his own decisions. This is a great example of a hypole. Another examples of literary devices in the song is,”Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running.”(Smash Mouth) This lyric is an example of personification. It’s personification because it’s giving human traits to the rules. The lyric give detailed information about the singer listening to the rules, but people make fun of him for listening to every rule. That will not stop him for doing his best.

The Protagonist: The Protagonist in my novel is Adam. He loses his crazy rock star career to get in touch with Mia by trying to get in touch with her. He withdrawals from the band for a temporary amount of time and he begins to not get along with his band mates and is always depressed or in a cranky mood. He wasn’t being a very good boyfriend. He felt lost to himself . Adam was going through a very difficult time.

We see how these concepts norms, values, structure and social facts, and agency give an understanding to lyrics in a song for society and how the concepts tell the story in the song “Wrong way” by Sublime. Many important factors came from these concepts we have to see the role society (her father, brothers, and narrative) played in Annie’s life and what influenced her choices in life. Symbolic interaction theory effectively explains the narrative in this song because of the different views Annie and him see with her life, that her reality of her life is a good life, and that he does not see it as a good way of life but as a bad road ahead.

Music,music has so much power over us it makes us feel all these emotions and makes us act bit different when we're listening. The song that makes me fell like I have a lot of energy is "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. The first time I heard the song was when I was seven years old my dad wad the person who showed me the song. When I first heard it I immediately fell in love with it. Ever since that day, I loved the artist and my favorite song has always been "Billie Jean". "Billie Jean" is a song that inspires and motivates me to play soccer.

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

The song "Stressed Out" by Twenty-One Pilots is a story about a struggling singer which seems familiar to the audience on a personal level. While exploring such sensitive topics as stress, becoming an adult, and nostalgia, it also touches upon the issue of originality. The understanding between the lead singer, Tyler Joseph, and the listeners is reached with the help of the themes, the tone, and the narrative of the song.

Teens Dystopian Life? Teens are known for their dark thoughts and acting moody because of their life, this maybe why dystopian society novels are so popular within that age group. A dystopian society is a society in which there is an illusion of a perfect society but in reality it’s filled with misery and the citizens have no freedom because of the government, and the citizens fear the outside world. If someone was better than any one of their peers then they would be considered evil because they are different and being different isn’t allowed.

The song “End Credits” by EDEN (also known as The Eden project) has themes that align with those present in The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the book, Holden obsesses himself with preserving both his own adolescent innocence as well as that of others. This can be seen in the chapter in which he spends time with his sister, where he says, “What are you--a child, for God’s sake?” (Salinger 164). In this quote, Holden is both reassuring himself that his sister is still, in fact, a child, as well as telling her that everything’s okay because she’s still a child. Holden also spends a lot of time comforting his sister, probably feeling as if he is conserving her innocence by doing so. One of the lines in EDEN’s song is as follows, “Rather burn

‘No matter gay, straight, or bi, I was born to survive’. In the words of lady GaGa herself it doesn’t matter who you marry, what your gender is or what’s you race you just need to accept others and yourself. Lady GaGa’s song ‘Born this Way’ informs others about self-acceptance in her new album ‘Born this way’. This song is about people abusing others and reflecting badly on them self because of their race, gender and choice in who they marry. Lady GaGa expresses her thoughts about people’s issues to say it doesn’t matter who you are because you were born that way.

When Will It End was written by Felicia Brown. The night that Felicia sat down on her couch and thought, "Wow I have a twenty-year-old. " She felt heartbroken with all the gun violent cases and mother's and father's losing their child/children to gun violence. Felicia stated "I don't know what I will do if something happens to my daughter.

The song, “Last Kiss” by the band Pearl Jam represents when Daisy hit Myrtle while driving Gatsby’s car. The band sings, “I couldn’t stop so I swerved to the right“ (9), which resembles Daisy’s inability to stop the car before she hit Myrtle with it. Daisy was driving recklessly because she was upset with the events that happened earlier in the city, and she wasn’t able to handle the vehicle properly. The song continues, “I’ll never forget the sound that night/ The screaming tires, the busting glass” (10-11).