The Teenage Wasteland, why was it so good?
Growing up in the recent generations is very challenging. Children at such young ages, even younger than teens have been faced with such perilous decisions. It is especially hard for teenagers to find acceptance at this point in their lives. Here is an instance that is so common in this day and age, yet this particular case is only fiction. A teenage boy named Donny has been going through a few changes in his appearance. His parents, Matt and Daisy, are somewhat disturbed yet they don’t say much to him. Then one day Daisy gets a call from Donny’s school administrator and tells her that his grades are attitude are dropping scale. He eventually gets kicked out of private school and does poorly in public school. Daisy was concerned and decided to take advice from the school and psychologist to get help from a highly reputable tutor, Calvin Applebee. Instead of Donny’s parents talking to their son they hire Cal, which tries to handle Donny’s lack of emotion and performance. Donny’s performance didn’t change with Cal, at least in the school aspect, but Cal kept reassuring Daisy and Matt that it would change and to give it more time. In result, Donny runs away after being sent home because he was expelled for being caught with drugs in his locker and months later he still has not returned home. Who is to blame? Should Daisy and Matt been more disciplined on Donny? Well, in Anne Tyler’s short story the Teenage Wasteland this is just what happened. I really enjoyed this story because I feel it really focused on an issue that is so common in our generation. It was easy to read and was straight to the point. I especially enjoyed the role of the dumbfounded parents, Cal’s cynical character, and in result of the all their foolishness, the action Donny resulted in taking.
It was really funny to me to see how Donny’s parents could be so oblivious to all that was happening to Donny. They were very good parents but didn’t but enough discipline on him. They instead let the school, the psychologist, and especially the Cal run the life of Donny. Daisy and Matt should never have given so much control to everyone else over their own son. Daisy tried helping Donny in school, even having to start supper late at times and spending less time around her other daughter. It wasn’t always pleasant because when Matt would come home she would...
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...r’s story may not have been happy but it ended as more of a realistic matter. Maybe she decided to conclude the book with the disappearance of Donny to show some parents how important is truly is to communicate and love their children unless they want the same thing to happened to their children that Donny experienced.
I really enjoyed “Teenage Wasteland” because it displayed a topical issue some parents have actually faced in their lifetime. It was exceptional the way the story was wrapped up. Not that I don’t enjoy happy endings but I am more interested in reading stories that may be written in fiction but that I can actually relate to and imagine it happening. Anne Tyler displayed this real life situation through a fiction tale that has such valuable lessons to be learned. Donny’s just a teenager who was going through a rough time in his life and just wanted to be loved and to love himself. It isn’t always happy the way children turn out but parents do make the difference and communication is a key to success. I feel Tyler displayed this quite clear in her short story so everyone could learn a lesson worth learning to prevent this astounding situation from happening to others.
Everyone has their memory about their adolescent period, whether they only studied or were one of disorderly students. Among those rebellious teenagers, some of them study diligently and tend to change themselves after they notice that they were going to the wrong way. In the book Dooley Takes the Fall, which is written by Norah McClintock deals with this kind of teenager called Ryan Dooley. Dooley, Rhodes, Beth, Dooley’s uncle are the main characters of this story, and it takes place in an urban setting. In the beginning of the story, Dooley witnesses a death of a person from a ravine, and the person is founded as one of the students who goes to Dooley’s school, Mark Everley. At first, the police say that Mark’s death is suicide, but Dooley is suspected by the police as the juvenile delinquent after he gets involved in his peer’s another death, and a smash-and-grab accident. This story plays out as Dooley tries to prove his innocence and changes himself from his past. The author wrote this book because she wants to show people the real life of teenagers, and how those disorderly students changes throughout his or her life by showing appropriate setting, fair narrative point of view, and symbolic title.
However The great majority of parents are often cryptic in these necessary lessons while still others try to build a protective shield around their children. Do they really believe this is to the benefit of our youth? It is understandable to want to protect children from unnecessary evils, but sometimes in constructing walls around their worldly vision they are in all actuality cutting their children off from reality. It is so much healthier and helpful to confront these issues head-on, rather than trying to skirt around them. & Juliet" by the students, such avoidance of the matter at hand will often prove more harmful in the development of young minds. Through the various misconceptions of the children in her short story, "The Brother in Vietnam," Maxine Hong Kingston allows her readers to see just how necessary truth is to the vulnerable minds of our youth.
Parents are always supposed to look out for the best interests of their child. Anne Tyler authored the short story “Teenage Wasteland” which depicts the strained mother and son relationship between the character Donny, and his mother Daisy. Donny is a teenage boy who is struggling with his grades at school and is exhibiting poor behavior. His mother Daisy is concerned with her son’s grades and behavior, however, she fails at getting her son the help that he requires. Told through a third person point of view through the character of Daisy, Tyler uses irony to tell the story of a teenage boy who is failed by the adults in his life who are supposed to help him flourish, including his parents, a psychologist, and his tutor.
In the short story, "A Sound of Thunder" a man named Eckels tests the delicacy of life while traveling back in time to hunt the most ferocious predator to ever walk the planet. Ray Bradbury develops the theme that every choice made has an effect so we must be cautious of our actions in times of confidence, fear and guilt. Eckels is a young man, determined to hunt for his biggest catch yet and he enters TIME SAFARI INC. hoping they can give him the thrill he's been looking for. He has hunted many things like tigers, wild boars and elephants but has never hunted something like this. In his excitement he, "waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk" and was ready for his safari (Bradbury 1). He showed confidence
Role Diffusion, social support is key in reminding teens that they are not alone when dealing with stressful situations and have someone who can offer sage advice and lend a helping hand. When Hazel is stressed or simply feeling down my partner and I encourage her to open up, try to both emphasize and sympathize with what she’s feeling, offer advice to the best of our abilities, but also give her space to form her own decisions. During adolescence, teenagers like to test boundaries. As such, Hazel decided to come home after curfew and lied about the dent in the family car. Sometimes she doesn’t call my partner and I on the designated times we’ve set for her to call, or refuses to go to bed during bedtime, cooperate with chores, appropriate clothing selection, and music choices. During late adolescence, teenagers commence employment. Hazel got a part-time job at a local grocery store to save up for college. Finally, during late adolescence teenagers develop a smaller group of closed-knit friends and are able to find an equilibrium between family, romantic relationships, school, and friends. Regarding Hazel, she organizes her schedule so that she knows when family time is and her set study time, on the weekends she spends one day with her boyfriend, and the next day she spends half of it with her friends and the other half doing her
Mary says she was a late bloomer. I was the same way. The kids did make fun of me for not being "hard" enough for them. I don't understand why Ben Berdeman apologizes to Mary's dad when he says "cocksucker." That sort of language is common in The Liar's Club. It's a small world out there. I like it when Mary's father helps out Dole and start to talk about where they are from. When I find myself in conversations like that, it truly amazes me how everyone is somehow connected to each other.
Growing up and becoming mature can be an intimidating experience; it is difficult to let go of one’s childhood and embrace the adult world. For some people, this transition from youthfulness to maturity can be much more difficult than for others. These people often try to hold on to their childhood as long as they can. Unfortunately, life is not so simple. One cannot spend their entire life running from the responsibilities and hardships of adulthood because they will eventually have to accept the fact that they have a role in society that they must fulfill as a responsible, mature individual. The novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger follows the endeavours of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-year-old teenage boy who faces a point in his life where he must make the transition from childhood to adulthood. In an attempt to retain his own childhood, he begins hoping to stop other young children from growing up and losing their innocence as well. As indicated by the title, “The Catcher in the Rye” is a book that explores a theme involving the preservation of innocence, especially of children. It is a story about a boy who is far too hesitant to grow up, and feels the need to ensure that no one else around him has to grow up either. His own fear of maturity and growing up is what leads to Holden’s desire to become a “catcher in the rye” so he can save innocent children from becoming part of the “phoniness” of the adult world.
...nce can often lead them to new dangers as they have to face the troubles and conflicts of adulthood even if they are not prepared for it due to their vulnerability of being a youth. This is easily supported by Connie’s influence on her choice of sexual music, the idealistic simulation of being an icon, and her incapacity to fully comprehend a situation as she gets exploited and mistreated from an adult. Ultimately, the short story indicates the evolution of Connie and her interaction with Arnold has shaped the way she viewed the world as she is calling out for her mother and stepping into a realm that is beyond her awareness. Joyce Carol Oates reminds the American culture that without regulations, support, and a sense of role models when crossing the threshold of maturity, it can often lead to many crises and imminent grief because of the imprudence of teenagers.
The story “A Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), opens when a man named Eckels enters the offices of Time Safari, Inc., a company that offers safaris that take hunters to any time in the past to hunt any animals they wish to shoot. Eckels presents a check for $10,000 to the clerk and asks if the company guarantees that hunters return alive from the past. The clerk replies that the company guarantees nothing but encounters with dinosaurs. Hunters must strictly obey their guides, shooting only what and when they are instructed to shoot. Any disobedience will result in a $10,000 fine plus possible government-imposed penalties.
In the book “The Sound of Thunder,” the author, Ray Bradbury acknowledges readers that even the smallest, unintentional actions can carry heavy consequences. At the beginning, Eckels was not aware of that careless mistakes can bite him back in the future. He doesn’t take Travis’ constant of warnings of only shooting animals with marks and staying on the path seriously. He responds “so what” when the guide claimed that killing a single mouse can result to the decease of billions of mice and other animals. In line 59, “Eckels aimed his rifle playfully” as a joke, not realizing the seriousness of the situation again. By accident, Eckels stepped out of the path, leaving traces of human activity, and killing a butterfly. When they return back to
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