Monday, June 6, 2011

Chronicle of A death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (pg.24-120)

Summary

The court in this case understands Pedro and Pablo's reasons for murdering Santiago, which were out of dignity, oddly, even the church understands that. They got three years of jail time before the actual trial but never felt penitent for their actions. Before they were captured, they went to the butchers shop to sharpen their knives and tell everyone about their plans. For some reason the twins had waited for him at the front of the Santiago's house when though he always comes through the back. There was a relationship between butchers and the animal, most butchers couldn't look at the animal, know the animal, or drink from the animal when slaughtering them. While the Vicario's named their animals, they also slaughtered them. At 4:30, they went to Clotilde Armenta's bar and got drunk. Colonel Leonardo Aponte fits the two pieces together on why the bride was dismissed and Vicario brothers sudden plan, and so he decided to take their knives. The twins tell everyone that they are going to murder Santiago and Clotilde Armenta sends a lot of people to tell Santiago but no one does. Sense Pedro Vicario had gotten into the military; Pablo became more dependent on him. Pedro had decided to kill Santi but after a while he regretted it and this happened after the colonel stopped them, Pablo then took charge. At 4:30, Santi comes home without turning on the lights straight to bed; he had been with the towns prostitute called Maria Alejandrina Cervantes. Santi had decided to go to Bayardo's house without knowing that Angela had been send back to sing newlywed songs. Even the priest had heart the message but he realized that it wasn't any of his business. The novice major had ordered them to give Santi and autopsy and his body was but in the living room meanwhile they made his sophisticated coffin. The dogs were killed because they wanted to eat his guts. Father Amador performed the autopsy and found that Santiago had perforations all over his body. Nasar smell follows the reporter and the twins, it actually haunts them. They are both sent to jail before the judge arrives, but Pablo gets really sick and they get send home. The whole family moves away, the dad dies, Pablo gets married and wealthy, Pedro joins the army and is never heard of again. As for Angela and Pura, they move away to a nearby town. Bayardo Roman is found unconscious on his bed a day after his wedding, he was intoxicated and later on his mother comes to pick him up and is never seen again. Angela bought a house near the water and lived there all her life, she became down-to-earth on hear life and maturity. However, she never really assured that Nasar was really at fault. Angela admitted that she didn't fake her virginity on purpose because she felt bad for San roman and took the hits for him. She writes Roman letter after seeing him one day and becomes obsessed with him. San Roman after 17 years comes back after recovering about 2,000 letter. Santi's fiancĂ© Flora becomes a prostitute. Cristo Bedoya goes to Santiago's house to warm him about the death and sneakds into his room, gets his gun to give it to Nasar so he can defend himself, but Cristo never finds Nasar. Before Santiago died, he went to Flora's house, she had already known and was going crazy. Flora's father tells him that he's going to die and Santiago just feels confused over being scared. Santi leaves anyway and before it happens Clotilde Armenta yells at him to run but his confusion defeats him. Victoria Guzman tells Placida Linero about the twins plan minutes before the incident. Santiago runs into the house, then run in the twins, and they stab him all over. After being punctured all over, he manages to walk around and die in his kitchen.

Quote
" They were sitting down to breakfast when they saw Santiago Nasar enter, soaked in blood and carrying the roots of his entrails in his hands...Santiago Nasar walked with his usual good bearing, measuring his steps well, and that his sarcen face with its dashing ringlets was handsomer than ever" (Marquez 120).

Reaction
My reaction to this quote was a better understanding of who Santiago Nasar was. Marquez's writing style demonstrates an ability to look at a few sentences about a character that are written and see a bit of what his personality is like. This quote of before Santiago dies connects to the whole story because it shows how even after Santiago is killed, he still walks the same way and behaves the same way. He doesn't blame anyone, he's just confused. The quote describes Santiago in such a way that the reader can use imagery to picture Santiago Nasar in there mind.
 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Chronicle of A death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (pg.1-47)

Summary

       Santiago Nasr at the beginning of the book, it completely blurts out that he is going to be murdered. The Book in a first person narration and it takes place 27 years later; a reporter is collecting interviews of people in the community about this murder. He dies on his wedding died, the day the bishop was going to visit in the e town.  He always carried guns but was very discreet when saving and hiding the, but on his wedding day. Santiago is slim, pale, and has curly hair. His mother named Placida Linero has a 6th sense, which Nasar inherits. Ibrahim Nasar, Santiago's father allows Santiago to inherit the love for horses and firearms, Ibrahim is also known for having affairs with the servant like Santiago Nasar. The men were going to kill Santiago through the front door, which was never used, but on his wedding day known as his "Fatal door". The house used to be a warehouse and had a huge structure. Victoria Guzman the servant knew that he was going to die. However, her daughter Divina Flor, which has an affair with Santiago , admits that her mother wanted him to die. Before he left his house for his wedding that day, he touched Divina inappropriately, before he left, a envelope had been left in the house that explained the motives for his deaths, but it was found long after his death. Two men would kill him, twins called Pedro and Pablo Vicario, 24 years old. The Bishop doesn't even stop to greet Nasar and Santi felt cheated. The narrator’s sister called Margot meets Santiago at the pier where the whole town is to see the Bishop pass by, she doesn't know about the death. Flora Miguel is Santiago's bride; Santiago is really excited for his wedding at the dock. Many people describe him as a person of his word and 21 years old. Cristo Bedoya, his friend, leaves with him from the pier to go to Margot’s house, that’s the last time he was seen. Many people knew that Santiago was going to get killed but they thought they thought that sense he wasn't killed earlier then he wasn't in trouble, the killers had waited for the bishop to pass. The killers had waited across the street of Nasar's house, which was located in front of the dock. Everyone in the town thought that he had been warned but he didn’t. Most people were too interested in the Bishop's arrival to care about other gossip. After he hadn't stepped off, Margot found out that Angela Vicario’s brothers wanted to kill Santi, Somehow Angela Vicario had gotten married the day before and was sent home because she wasn't a virgin. Mother shows that she already knew about it when Margot gets home. When the reporters mother finds out, she runs to tell Placida but she finds out that they had already killed him. Bayardo San Roman gave back the bride Angela Vicario, he's 30 years old and wealthy. The whole town is thinks that he is enchanting and charming. He was town hopping looking for a wife and wans an engineer , wanted to marry Angela Vicario. When the reporter met him, he appeared like a sad man, not as charming and bright as his mother described in letters. Poncio Vicario and Purisima del carmen are Angela Vicario's parnets, Bayardo San Roman goes and meets them. The reporters name is named Merecedes, they beocme engaged around the same time. Purisima seemed as strict as a noun, she raised her 4 daughters to marry and know housewife qualitites, and Pablo and Pedro to become men. Prisima makes San Roman identify himself and he brought his family, which impressed the wohle town. Angela Vicario didn't want to marry Roman because he was to much of a man for her bu t she was talked into it by her family. There engagement is four months long, San Roman buys a house for her, the nicest one in town from widower Xius. He offers Widower Xius's so much many for the house he loved, that he died. Angela Vicario was very worrried before the wedding happened about her hiding her not being a virgin. There wedding was scheduled for the Bishops visit so he could marry them and they received many gifts before hand. On the day of the wedding, San Roman fixed the Vicario's modest house up for a party and Angela waited until he came home for her to get ready after the wedding, Sangiago Nasar ahd even gone to the festival with reporter and Cristo Bedoya. San Roman brings Angela Vicario home, she's in shreds with a towel around her worst, San Roman pushes her inside and Purisima beats her silently. Angela tellsher brothers it was Santiago Nasar.
Quotes
  "Then it it was that my sister Margot learned about it in a thorough and brutal way: Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before, had been returned to the house of her parents , because her husband had discovered that she wasn't a virgin" (Marquez 21).
Reaction
My reaction to this quote was jaw dropping. One, because this is probably the reason why Santiago Nasar gets killed, but it is wierd because Marquez decides to reveal this to the reader just in the first chapter of the book. It also brings up when of the points or perhaps moral that the book insinuates in the blurb of the book which is codes that men and women impose on women. But then again, this was the type of culture at the time. This phrase connects to the book as a whole because it shows the many implications that can be brought about from just one of these "immoral" acts.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Rise and Fall of The American Teenager by Thomas Hine (pg. 243-304

Summary
 In 1946, the largest baby boom in American history occurred, marketers started planning there sales before the babies even arrived and by the 1960's marketers had created children and adolescent products, such as shopping carts for kids when they found out that parents bought what there kids told them to. The baby boom made schools reform to prepare for a large number of students and created more electives. More children enrolled into college and now statistics proved that drop-outs made less money in a life time then high-school graduates. Students became internal dropouts where they physically went to school but really didn't care about anything. In the 1960s, there was a huge issue were the integration of black teenagers into high school became an issue, although young people stood up and created groups to help accept the black students, both black and white teens did this. Statistics showed how parents counted for how there teenagers acted. The Beatles came after the Kennedy's assassination and the best band ever :) helped change the sexual character of America, along with playboy that made cars and Martinis "cool." Around the same time the birth control pill came out in the market came out and obliterated sexual responsibility for males. The Vietnam War made young men make long hair much more than a hair style. It symbolized defiance to the war and equality, denouncing machismo by making them similar looking to women. There was a student movement that called a stop of oppression by adults. Clicks started emerging as schools became more relaxed and gave students free time. During the 1960's the consumption of illegal drugs dramatically increased as a result of adults working longer hours. The result of no one caring for teens as in there teachers and administrators, it created a peer group culture that consisted of selling Marijuana, smoking cigarettes, and illegal gang activities. The late baby boomers were completely ignored politically and had less of a bright guarantee with there school cuts. Heavy-metal music came in the 70's and added on to something adults could never understand and therefore called it meaningless. Goth teenager appeared as an epidemic and they would go got Disneyland and people would find ways to make sure they couldn’t come in and arrest them for the tiniest faults. There appearance was a disturbance. Teen has an always been a bias term to a middleclass person. Marketers surveyed teens around the U.S to find how to sell them and they found that teens felt like they were alienated by society and pessimistic. Family life has been disrupted, teens who don't eat with there families are more likely not to get pregnant, abuse drugs, and participate in crime. Hine notes that telling teens what not to do and restricting them makes them do it more, like the restriction of cigarettes in MA. The idea of probation officers in Massachusetts negotiation with juvenile delinquents has succeeded because it is more personal. For black and Hispanic teens as much as 50% have grown up in poverty making there leading cause of death homicide. Overall one in 4 teens in the U.S reports being abused in the last year. Title IX, was an act that forced in 1972 public schools to treat both guys and girls the same even if one party got pregnant. Now girls handle both school and babies, there is a lot more funding for women sports. Title IX, also was an indirect result of Bulimia and Anorexia cause by Magazines and for men also. Teens working has become controversial because it can go both ways, one acquiring punctual responsibilities and the other teens take work more seriously than school. Teens who work are more likely to be prone to dropping out, doing drugs, and participating in sexual activity. Schooling has become a way to store young people for a longer period like 30 years ago when people were put into high school to make space for family fathers. Motherhood has teen has given young girls a definite future and a path in life. Identity has been the larges issue with teenagers and finding a way to fit in society. Teens even have to pass through metal detectors everyday, they are even at a higher risk of using drugs, sex, and crime. Parents often working long hours to pay a house were youth are alienated. Hines argues that teens should be treated as adults who are inexperience but not as different creatures, they should just be given more attention. When the term "teenager," that refers to a mystical adultish creature, young people will become actual individuals instead of one type of group, and strong members of there communities. Hines encourages reader to help tens not to rerun history.
  Quote
"The society implied by the dance is not harmonious made up of couples. Rather, it is violent and composed of isolated individuals who are, nevertheless, both seeking and repulsing contact with others. If this sounds like a vision of American society as a whole, that's not surprising. “(Hine 280).

Reaction
  The quotation is referring to the dance "American Bandstand." Hine uses the best comparison ever; this is the type of great written that he is, he makes connections between what he is writing about and society. Here he makes a connection between a dance that teens did that adults thought was meaningless and absurd and he makes the statement that it is much like the society that those adults run. He makes the argument that teenagers reflect society as a whole, and how it is really run, sense teenagers really do follow there parents. This connects to the stories larger message of helping out teenagers and really paying attention to them because they have a lot to offer.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine (Pages 190-243)


Summary
   Movies became an answer to sexuality and a new part of a new culture of Americans. In the 1920s, women’s hair became short and women started dressing more "openly" as a result of the women’s rights movements. Cars had a lot to do with American culture; it created a new rite of passage with a driver’s license and gave teens more liberty. College became the ultimate goal because of advertising of college. Dating with multiple partners became popular at the time and it gave guys power over girls and it became a loss of family power over children’s dating lives. In the 1940s, "petting," or sexual activity, became popular amount teens and petting parties became a way for teens too pet and to create a scandal, the level of sexual activity amount teens went up significantly. Then came the Great depression, which made fifty percent more teens enroll in high school. The problem was that high schools weren’t prepared to take in so many students at the same time so teenagers became stuck in a world were everything failed, everything they were taught about the greatness of there country had failed and there school was failing to teach them properly. Several acts and the new deal discriminated against teens in the workforce and made youth a problem. During this time, youth were removed from the workforce by the government and forced to go somewhere else in order to make space for family men. The great depression got families together and dislocated the youth. Many young people became "ho-bo's" a during this era and lived in hobo jungles. School became a place where the rich and poor met, youth movies and comic books inspired youth to deal with all the problems in certain ways. IN 1945, father went to war and mothers went to work, leaving teenagers and children alone most of the time. Military canteens became huge social spot during World War II. After the war, prosperity and money came, teens got married at a very high rate. In the 1950s, marketers realized that teens affected the market directly y and indirectly with there parents and during this time there money benefitted marketers. Youth crime increased because there was a baby boom, long parent work hours caused gang violence, also immigrant groups started gangs and this was popular in urban lower-class areas. Movies also benefitted the gang violence look and taught teenagers how to behave. People moved out to suburbs to avoid this sort of life. 

Quote  
'' The media, which some feared were corrupting youth, had tamed and exploited the threatening adolescent subculture--and together they put on a real nice show" (Hine 248).

Reaction
  Here the author tells the reader the what has caused such a disruption and the "fall of the teenager," which is the media, and he argues that throughout the book especially when television comes along and even before that when marketing officials were appointed to the job. I think that this is a very powerful statement because the media does even today create a view of teenagers that makes them a certain way and gives others of different age groups and cultures a perspective of the american teenager. The media has been haunting the teenager sense the mid 20th century, its incredible how long media have exploited teenagers.

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine (Pages 125-190)


   Summary 
    Families depended on their children for money back then and this created youth authority, language also became a barrier between parents and this made it hard immigrant teenagers to fit into society. In the 19th century teens began working in the street trades like shoe shining and or delivering messages, department stores were made possible through gash boys and girls who collected cash throughout the store. Many youths weren't restrained from adult only activities like gambling during this time. A youth culture emerged where there became a way of expression for teens and a threat to society, the government agreed on censorship teens. Books even became a threat to society by being explicit (hahaha). During the late twentieth century laws establishing reform schools and cutting youth jobs created teenagers. During this time teens became really short because of pollutants in the air while working in dangerous mills and factories. Most southern west boys became men very early and moving east to school meant that they lost responsibility school to being a child. The teenager was created with high school in order to become a member of the community must go through high school. The idea of high school took over after war world two because of low job opportunity; public school was a touchy subject. Teens have control over there own social life in high school, which was a huge change. Many parents couldn’t sacrifice their young men going to high school for economical reasons, but it was okay for there girls to go. Reading was essential in communities and colleges emerged for clergy menus sake. Funding for schooling was a huge issue especially poor kids education was considered an act of charity so they wanted to take that into consideration. High school equality was a huge problem between social classes; finishing high school was a huge effort and a replacement for college. High schools were run locally and Latin was known as the language of the elite. The Morills act was given for colleges to educate on agriculture. School was used at government’s best interest to control societies opinions. The late 19th century included team sports and extracurricular activities started to become very popular and developed character, there was a mayor focus on student life. Boy’s scouts were created to keep young men immature because there were complaints that the youth were growing up to fast. Teachers didn't see how students and parents still took schooling as a second option. Child labor laws were enforced because machines to there jobs. Juvenile courts took too much thinking of society to create a place were young people could stop taking the road they did and not become criminals as adults. In 1967, the Supreme Court decided juveniles needed a due process of law and made it a more adult trial. Juvenile courts allowed the public to observe the way youth worked and catches problems. The upper and middle class girls were boy’s angel’s lower-class girls fulfilled their desires. Teenage pregnancy was solved by marriage back then. Lower class girls were considered "charity girls,"
 they were given nice things by young men in exchange for sexual favors, and not considered particularly "flappers," or prostitutes.

Quote
    "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier--their love of mobility, their belief that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back--became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137).

Reaction
  My reaction to this quotation was that this was finally the official start of the American teenager, a full description of it after the high school chapter, the sentence flowed in so well. Hine uses literal language all the time but here he describes the young person as a creature, and explains to the reader a teenager and how it was formed through one sentence. This is the type of writer that he is, he explains throughout the book and reminds the reader all the time how the createion of the teenager affects the teenager today. This connects to the overall theme of the book because it explains everything that he was just talking about the whole book and connects it to the creation of the teenager.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Rise and Fall of The American Teenager by Thomas Hine (pg. 64-125)

Summary
    The first settlers who were Puritans ideas of youth was anyone from ten to twenty one, youth needed a family and an economic obligation. Puritans exchanged children throughout there families, this supported the physiological idea that it’s easier to see other children grow up then your own. Young men moved out of home to find the calling of there apprenticeship which was the most common form of education during the 16th century. During the 16th and 17th centuries, school fit around work and most people didn't go to college. Apprenticeship was idea to orphans and children who were younger because it gave them sort of like a home. The end of apprenticeship came when the industrialization age began. The American Revolution was a youth uprising were youth walked out of there elders shadow. During the 18th century, Americans became taller than even Europeans because of the stress free environment and less diseases. Religion during this time changed the youth and the youth changed the way religion functioned. Before this revival, only people from ages 20 to 35 were full members of the church, in families the father was the main religious teacher. The Great Awakening gave youth and independent experience with religion and it was a way that the idea of equality between genders began. During the 16th century, there were huge problems between practical and academic schooling, Benjamin Franklin organized schools that were dedicated to students vocations, which encouraged students to go to school. Young people became enthusiastic republicans when the American Revolution ended. In 1770, Boston Massacre was started by a young person who threw a rock at a solider for not paying back a wig at his apprenticeship. Schooling for young women wasn't necessary sense they didn’t get jobs. Upper class women went to school just to make friends and for recreation. In 1835, Adolescents didn't exist; they were young Americans who integrated as active members of communities. For slaves, coming of age meant the shocking reality of there whole life. Young women became active in religious revivals and had more freedom and interest in literature. Many youths were stuck between listening to there family and working in a farm and working in a factory. Factory girls emerged and started the first ever dormitory of young women and the earliest form of the youth market. Young women created literary pieces and began an intellectual revolution. The 1840's and 50's brought a time where middle and upper class started controlling there family size through contraception and abortion to save money, and therefore many families focused one education. Irish immigrants ended the factory girls because they took jobs for really low wages and ended republican ideals of social equality and industrial reform because these immigrants were now considered subhuman. The immigrant population massively increased and advocates like Clergy Theodore Parker made  statements that put immigrants into the category of "half-civilized" individuals, and the belief that only children could be saved. 1840's, gang violence was brought by immigrants and prostitution emerged by natives of the north east.  There were advocates for education reform but it was difficult because children were made to work by there parents. America had a huge temperance issues, ids were drinking very young and parents became alcoholics causing children’s as young as10 to leave there home. These children became street bandits. Soon, the Irish revolted against the civil war, protesting and killing many blacks. Children moved far out west and south to find jobs of farmers who took young children. All these problems created the idea of "a self-made man in the making." In the 19th century, many immigrant children saw there childhood shorten and there work time increase. Half way through the century there were two types of individuals, one was going to school, the other which was most adolescents which was working for there families. Teens were always a part of people’s consideration of finance. Most tens worked without pay, sense people were so young when hey started working by the time they were parents they would want to make there kids work.
Quotes 
 "Of course, every family, even today, is an economic unit, and it must make calculations about who must work and how to balance domestic life with the necessity of  employment. Teenagers are still part of each family's financial decisions" (Hine 123).
Reaction
    Hine demonstrates verisimilitude in the life of a family in the 19th century and a family currently in the 21st century. That's what makes his writing so interesting, he is able to talk about the history of families in other centuries and is able to make it relate to today. He explains why there were financial problems back then in families, and it is very similar to problems today. It gives the reader a idea of the main point of the book.  That's the type of style he uses, Hine is very literal and on point with the subject. This quotation connects to the rest of the book by showing how family and there financial stability contributes to the making of a teenager, in the qoute he comparing it two teenagers today, showing the history of teenagers.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine (Pages 0-63)

Summary
The narrator begins by mentioning that in high school yearbook club he was assigned to write a piece on the misery of teenagers. In the 1930s, teenagers didn't go to school and only worked but the government funded more high schools to have older men work. Author's theory is that teenager is a term that is a cycle of our lives and embedded into it. In the 1940s, the term "teenager: arrived, youth could be described at the time as anyone from 12 to 35 years old. The author speaks of looking at history of teenagers and making it relevant to modern teenager ideals. The rise of the teenager is the education, shape, and continuation of teen culture. The fall of the teenager is all the negative aspects of being a teenager like tattoos, piercings, gangs, and violence. The rise and fall of teenagers could be compared to the rise and fall of man in Genesis, the biblical story. Teenage Mystique allows adults to remind themselves of there own mortality, which makes adults have a negative view on teenagers. It also makes adults presume thoughts about teens like that all teenagers are a same way. Americans culture includes a type of classification where their age group classifies a person and therefore they are assumed to act certain way. Before the twentieth century, teens were looked at and judged for their physical ability or other abilities and declared mature. Currently teenagers are but all into one box of mannerisms and personalities. Statistically, a teen that developed faster than others is most likely to participate in teenager mystique (negative assumptions of teenagers). In the mid 1990's, there was a high population of baby boomer and the crime rate was high, crime is a way for a teen to get a job or do something before he is mature. Pressure is put onto teens to not be like their parents but better, and teens actually adapt to adult habits. The more restraints put on them, the more the teenage mystique. Sexuality has become an issue in this generation with a lack of education. Teenagers crave their parents who many times aren’t there, parents view teens as exotic and stubborn. There is a possibility that teens from this decade may find new ways to deal with other teens in the future, but for now, it is not working out. It takes person a series of events to come of age, historical and cultural influences, and influence teenagers physical development. Modern nutrition has also had an impact on girl’s sexuality because there bodies develop earlier, this creates a gap between physical maturation and marriage age. Adolescent physiology is key to understanding the term "teenager," Anna Geud's theory is that we don't remember our adolescence because of its pain. Physical changes in a person’s body are due to their family and infancy. Aristotle even commented that teens are eager to fulfill their desires; teens have been studies for a long time. Of course, as time evolves, teenager culture does to; new problems arise that make them ungrateful for old problems. All teens are born in different situations, which makes it difficult to put them all into one category or to assume they all have the same obstacles. A person's identity, which is crucial to a person’s life, is undefined in American culture; American culture tries pushes in the idea of self-creation. American coming of age ceremonies like prom and age limitations, create bad habits, as teens grow and lead them to immaturity. The anthropologist term "rites of passage," consists of the same stages of bildungsroman. Coming of age rituals in other cultures are very distinct, Americans rituals are unclear, to teens and to adults, they leave youth disoriented and tattoos, piercings, and crazy haircuts become the answer to the lack of rituals defining coming of age. Even though some cultures deny young people of maturity, at times they find the only way to show it is physical maturity, in some cases youth are separated from there families to come of age. Esidendat argued that age groups are universal when there are two things, first the minimizing degree of family dependence and he inability for elders to share wealth to the young. The United States created the teenager, which becomes someone stuck in between.

Quote
"That in turn has led to the rise of a youth subculture that has helped define and elaborate what it means to be a teenager. Any account of the rise of the teenager is in large part, an account of the changing shape and continuing importance of teen culture"(Hine 7).

Reaction
  In the quotation, Hines summarises his point and defines what the rise of the teenager is. This connects to the authors style of writing because besides writing about the history of teenagers, he speaks optimistically about the rise of the teenager and the power of young people. His sophisticated way of writing is shown through using very specific terms like "subculture," not only is his diction at a higher level but the way he uses syntax to make his sentences to give them a intellectual touch, making the reader take the topic of teenagers seriously.