Teenagers are often categorized as this one major group, but for me, I can't see teenagers as one unified group because there are three different types of teens. You have the rambunctious, rebellious, and stuck-up teenagers who are really conceited, you have the intellectual, charismatic, and conservative teenagers who take the leadership roles, and then you have the teenagers that encompass both. In literature, the authors try to display both sides of a teenager and through psycho-analysis of the teenager depicted in the novel, short-story, or poem, the reader can see that the depiction of teenagers is true. In real life and in stories, there is a background to why teenagers act the way they do. All teens are affected by social, political, familial, and cultural aspects. Socially, teenagers are influenced by friends and what they hear. This is what shapes a shy, confident, hateful, or joyous attitude depending on who they are around. Politically, the leaders of our nation persuade the ideas of racial, sexual, and ideal beliefs that are accepted. The family, is the roots of which a teenager establishes beliefs and spirituality. As seen in Catcher in the Rye, Holden feels neglected by his parents and thus feels as if all parents and adults are phonies.
As depicted in literature works like Siddhartha and the Alchemist, teenagers go throughout a journey with inspirational people, as well as people that hold them back. Being a teenager is probably the hardest stage of life because teenagers undergo many pressures and insecurities from school to social media. They worry too much about their physical appearance and how they are academically and socially. Untying a teenager as a whole, I understand that teenagers try to hard to impress others because they are looked down upon, and must conform to the ways of society. Teenagers are always filled with images of how they should look or be with magazines like Seventeen or television shows like TMZ. Teenagers are probably the most "giving" people. Teens are so quick to look about what others think about them before their own feelings and body image. They would rather hurt themselves and be accepted, then feel non existent. This is why I think some teenagers are so quick to fall in love with someone or have crushes on people because they want somebody that will make them feel noticed and make them feel special.
As depicted in literature works like Siddhartha and the Alchemist, teenagers go throughout a journey with inspirational people, as well as people that hold them back. Being a teenager is probably the hardest stage of life because teenagers undergo many pressures and insecurities from school to social media. They worry too much about their physical appearance and how they are academically and socially. Untying a teenager as a whole, I understand that teenagers try to hard to impress others because they are looked down upon, and must conform to the ways of society. Teenagers are always filled with images of how they should look or be with magazines like Seventeen or television shows like TMZ. Teenagers are probably the most "giving" people. Teens are so quick to look about what others think about them before their own feelings and body image. They would rather hurt themselves and be accepted, then feel non existent. This is why I think some teenagers are so quick to fall in love with someone or have crushes on people because they want somebody that will make them feel noticed and make them feel special.
Adults and society though always depict teenagers in the wrong image. They picture us as brats and that we will get no where in life. Yet we are the future. Instead of being inspiring like the video above, adults like to blame teens for problems. We are their scapegoats. We are a slave to the power of adults, and as Jimi Hendrix once said, "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." All people were born to seek power out, and the adults of our world use their power to bring teenagers down. As depicted in all literature works about teenagers, like the Catcher in the Rye, teenagers want freedom. Their desire for freedom is fueled by the feeling of slavery under adults.
"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." - James Madison