Wild and Rebellious Adolescence

She realizes that the person she was as she is growing up is not who she must become as a mature youth and adult. She envisions a good life for herself and accepts that she has every right to live that life she desires. Though the Walls parents have done many wrongs to Jeannette there is one life lesson that they have instilled into her. They have empowered Jeannette with the energy and hunger to have the best education that she can obtain. ” I’ve always believed in the value of a good education” (Walls 265).

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.

Ian is a goal-oriented teenager regardless of the absence of his parents throughout his life. He has trouble in high school and eventually drops out due to his dream of being in the army. Even though Ian’s parents were absent for most of his life, Fiona has attempted to take the mother role. Lip has been the big brother attempting to positively influence him. Ian compares himself to Lip quite often especially

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.

Adolescence is a difficult time for both parents and the teenagers. And the pressure can be overwhelming. Due to poor teen-parent relationship teenagers faces failure in life. This issue is very common in our society. Anne Tyler and Joyce carol have written short stories in which similar scenario is depicted. Anne Tyler’s focus in this story is the gradual disintegration of the relationship between a teenage boy and his parents.

In the same fashion, dealing with Maureen Walls, the youngest child of the Walls family, had to rely on her friends and people she hardly knew to provide for her. This situation went as far as Maureen going to her friend’s house to eat meals and

From here we can start seeing many bad choices and decisions Tracy commits: as lying to mother about tattoos and piercings, rejects old friends, misses classes, and even do drugs. These activities were greatly influenced by Evie, and how much Tracy wanted to be accepted in the group. This peer pressure is also demonstrated when Evie and Tracy invite over two popular boys from sch ool to Evie´s house.

From the tone of Mick’s voice, the alcohol acts a sedative to numb the pain from his past. This motive for drinking is also evident through Lisa’s brother, Jimmy, after he loses both his girlfriend, Adelaine, and his goal in becoming an Olympic swimmer. The legacy of residential school is also manifested in Trudy and Tab’s mother-daughter relationship. Tab becomes the victim of her mother’s psychological and emotional upheaval that is a result from her childhood. In the grip of alcohol, Trudy often mistreats Tab. Removed from a family environment and placed in a reformation school, individuals return not only emotionally and psychologically scarred, but also unable to reestablish their own functional family. Tab confesses to Lisa that she wishes she had a mother like hers, saying, “You’re lucky. You’re really lucky that your dad was too young to go to rez school. [...] Just Mick and my mum went and it fucked them up” (Robinson 254). Trudy’s sister Kate also notes that Trudy “thinks Mother’s dirt, while she goes out and parties and treats Tab worse than what she blames Mother for” (Robinson 285).

Sophie is currently living with the Fringe’s and surviving on the land with limited resources. Sophie’s quality of life is reflected by her attire which is tattered, tangled, and filthy. Sophie is in a relationship with Gordon, otherwise known as David’s uncle, but is not truly satisfied as she still has intimate feelings about David. After realizing that she cannot join David’s group because she does not have a metal ability, experiences jealously and melancholy realizing that she does not belong to any group and is an outcast in this world. Her life was not lived to the fullest since everyone focused on her exterior rather than her interior, and was not appreciated for her strengths only her weakness.

Other characters affect Sheila and Sheila’s ideas. Gerald affects Sheila’s character and makes her less naïve and makes her realise that their relationship isn’t perfect. He also makes Sheila become more serious. The break down in Sheila and Gerald’s relationship and when she finds out about Gerald’s affair, shows her maturity as she doesn’t get upset about it and respects Gerald more. The inspector influences Sheila and breaks down her traditional ideas and situates Eva in relation to Sheila. The inspector influences Sheila and encourages her to change and think about other people rather than herself. The Inspector teaches Sheila about social morals and how discriminative the class system is. Because of this, Sheila changes her morals and views on society.

By coming to terms with the past, Cal is able to leave childhood behind, whereas Aron is forever paralyzed in adolescence. This inability to mature and grow is shown as he makes a series of illogical decisions, like those of a child, which negatively impact his life.

change in her life by moving with her boyfriend Frank from her homeland of Ireland and making a life with him in Buenos Ayres. Joyce illustrates that one of our most inherent qualities as humans and one that Eveline displays is that we are resistant to change. Through Eveline's relationships with her father, Frank and various peripheral relationships, Joyce demonstrates to us how Eveline has come to have certain beliefs about change.

her life around to fit in with the crowd . She is soon exposed to drugs, sex and violence. It

Also Therese does not want to grow up while in the other hand her older sister the narrator Evelyn wants to grow up so badly and take that big step from being a child to adult. This is very clear in Paragraph 8 where Evelyn says: “We’d walk down to the park and I’d sit by the swings and watch the boys.” She is becoming sexually aware by saying she would want to watch the boys and by this she realises boys are something of interest. Also she turns an old vest into a bikini: “I’d fashioned a bikini from a pair of pink knickers and an old vest which I’d cropped just below my nipples. “

Because of a dangerous illness of her mother, the young neighbour has to leave and couldn't take care of her children anymore. This is why Mamzelle Aurélie, who has never ever has children before, has to keep them.