Dirty Dancing And The Edge Of Seventeen: Movie Analysis

The concept of adolescence has definitely changed a lot over the different generations. For this paper I have decided that instead of interviewing people that are in my life I would use three movies from three very different generations. To do this I have chosen the movies Grease, Dirty Dancing, and The Edge of Seventeen. The movie Grease depicts how adolescence were in the 1950’s and the movie Dirty Dancing shows adolescence in the 1980’s. The movie that I picked that would best show how adolescents are growing up today is The Edge of Seventeen. These three movies will give a good idea of just how much adolescence has changed over the different generations. The movie Grease takes place at a high school in the 1950’s. Throughout this movie

This movie focuses on more of the emerging adolescence age rather than adolescence as they are growing up. During this movie the main emerging adolescent character has a romance with someone which is something that still has not changed to this day. Adolescents today still have romantic relations with one another and that is something that will not stop not matter the generation. While looking in the book on the chapter about love I found Sternberg’s Theory of Love. Out of the seven different types of love that he describes consummate love is the one that describes Baby and Johnny’s relationship. This is because we were able to see their relationship grow and how Arnett (2013) mentions “consummate love integrates all three aspects of love into the ultimate love relationship” (p. 246). The three aspects that the quote is talking about are passion, intimacy, and commitment. In this movie the relationship between Baby and Johnny was not initially accepted by her parents because he was a worker for the place that they were staying. I believe that her father was judging him because of his socioeconomic status and what his current job