SUMMARY
Hine talks of ever since the founding of Massachusetts the work and labor of teens and pre-teens has played a key role in society. the labor of teens was very important as late as the early to mid 20th century. now in the 21st century the labor of a teenager is purposefully limited to less than 6 hours per day.By the 18th century, the new teenagers in the new world were also growing bigger faster than their european counterparts and the reason given to this rapid change in growth is ample nutrition and less environmental stress. He also speaks of the importance of that maturity in the mid 1800s
QUOTE
"Adolescence is, by definition, a dependant state, experienced in one's own household and in institutions intended for people in their teens"(hine 96).
REACTION
This book is really starting to go deeper into where the idea of being a teenager has begun. Now, Thomas Hine is starting to analyze the time period before the civil war (sometime around the 1830s). Now adolescence is starting to take shape, but only for people of higher class. people who were poorer didnt have the luxury of having their children stay in school and get and education. they needed their children to work so they can contribute to the household. round that time being a young person was only limited to people who had the time and money to allow their children to fully develop themselves.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager p.1-56
SUMMARY
Thomas Hine starts off talking about his experience as a teenager writing for his high school newspaper and his feelings of teenage angst growing up in the time when rebellion was the norm. he then transitions into talking about what the expectations of a teenager where compared to what they are in modern times and how modern expectations can sometimes contradict eachother. He also notices that while teenagers in different cultures have diffrent values, their attitudes do not vary dramatically. He also acknowledges and questions adults views on teenagers and why so much pressure is paced upon teens. Hine also touches on the fact that adults/ scientists usually blame a teens behavior on hormones/angst and dont really search for a real reason.
QUOTE
"Young people today seem to be in a world of their own. They go to school with their age mates. they are with them on the job. The existence of this teenage culture, which seems wholly impervious to adult influence, is one of the most contentious aspects of the teenage mystique."(Hine 24)
REACTION
The in depth look at the pressures and behaviors of teenagers is actually kind of interesting. The history of the teenage culture started only some 70 years ago and is a somewhat new idea in American Culture so i would think that it would be expected that their are so many expectations and prejudices placed against teenagers even today.
Thomas Hine starts off talking about his experience as a teenager writing for his high school newspaper and his feelings of teenage angst growing up in the time when rebellion was the norm. he then transitions into talking about what the expectations of a teenager where compared to what they are in modern times and how modern expectations can sometimes contradict eachother. He also notices that while teenagers in different cultures have diffrent values, their attitudes do not vary dramatically. He also acknowledges and questions adults views on teenagers and why so much pressure is paced upon teens. Hine also touches on the fact that adults/ scientists usually blame a teens behavior on hormones/angst and dont really search for a real reason.
QUOTE
"Young people today seem to be in a world of their own. They go to school with their age mates. they are with them on the job. The existence of this teenage culture, which seems wholly impervious to adult influence, is one of the most contentious aspects of the teenage mystique."(Hine 24)
REACTION
The in depth look at the pressures and behaviors of teenagers is actually kind of interesting. The history of the teenage culture started only some 70 years ago and is a somewhat new idea in American Culture so i would think that it would be expected that their are so many expectations and prejudices placed against teenagers even today.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Lovely Bones p.1-112
SUMMARY
In the first nine chapters of the book, the main character, Susie Salmon is already dead. She tells the reader about how she died and who murdered her. Her murderer is her family's next door neighbor named George Harvey. She is watching from heaven all the happenigs in her neighborhood in the days after her death. No one suspects Mr. Harvey and Susie wants to be able to communicate with people on earth in order for them to put Mr.Harvey in jail. Her heaven is specialized specifcally for her and everything that comforted her on earth is incorporated in her heaven. After about two days of Susie being missing, her parents decide to call the police to search for her. They find a lead in the cornfield near her home (which is where she was murdered) and find a large amount of her blood in the soil whih leads them to believe that she was killed and is not missing. Meanwile Susie's father is investigating on his own and his snooping leads him to believe that Mr.Harvey had somethng to do with his daughter's dissappearance. About a week after Susie's death, they have her memorial and all of the students from her Jr. High School attend the memorial. Even Mr.Harvey attends but stays unseen. Susie's younger sister Lindsey is sitting next to their gandmother when her grandmother leans over and whispers in her ear that she overheard that their father believes that the man by the door has killed Susie. Lindsey looks over to see Mr.Harvey and they make eye contact;as soon as they make eye contact, she passes out.
QUOTE
"I could not have what I wanted most: Mr.Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watced closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on earth." (Sebold,20)
REACTION
This book is different from other books that I have read because when the book starts, the main character has already died and the narration is almost like a tri-narrative vioice. She is watching over all of her peers on earth and telling how they feel and of her time before she died as well as how she feels after realizing that she has died. Also, its very painful to read this story because we all know who did it and what happened BUT the other characters don't so we have to endure the process of the rest of the characters uncovering the truth.
In the first nine chapters of the book, the main character, Susie Salmon is already dead. She tells the reader about how she died and who murdered her. Her murderer is her family's next door neighbor named George Harvey. She is watching from heaven all the happenigs in her neighborhood in the days after her death. No one suspects Mr. Harvey and Susie wants to be able to communicate with people on earth in order for them to put Mr.Harvey in jail. Her heaven is specialized specifcally for her and everything that comforted her on earth is incorporated in her heaven. After about two days of Susie being missing, her parents decide to call the police to search for her. They find a lead in the cornfield near her home (which is where she was murdered) and find a large amount of her blood in the soil whih leads them to believe that she was killed and is not missing. Meanwile Susie's father is investigating on his own and his snooping leads him to believe that Mr.Harvey had somethng to do with his daughter's dissappearance. About a week after Susie's death, they have her memorial and all of the students from her Jr. High School attend the memorial. Even Mr.Harvey attends but stays unseen. Susie's younger sister Lindsey is sitting next to their gandmother when her grandmother leans over and whispers in her ear that she overheard that their father believes that the man by the door has killed Susie. Lindsey looks over to see Mr.Harvey and they make eye contact;as soon as they make eye contact, she passes out.
QUOTE
"I could not have what I wanted most: Mr.Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watced closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on earth." (Sebold,20)
REACTION
This book is different from other books that I have read because when the book starts, the main character has already died and the narration is almost like a tri-narrative vioice. She is watching over all of her peers on earth and telling how they feel and of her time before she died as well as how she feels after realizing that she has died. Also, its very painful to read this story because we all know who did it and what happened BUT the other characters don't so we have to endure the process of the rest of the characters uncovering the truth.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
The Mission by Jason Myers P.302-361
SUMMARY
Kaden is now wondering around San Francisco alone and decides that it was time to go back to James's house. When he reaches James's house he finds a note telling Kaden where James is and that he should meet him there immediately. When Kaden reaches the whip pad he overhears James and Caralie talking about how they lost him. They get on the topic of Kaden's parents and then the "stuff" really starts to hit the fan. James gets to talking about Kaden's mother and how she really didnt mean to get pregnant and that Kaden's father isn't really his father. No one really knows who Kaden's father is. Caralie then calls Kaden's mother a slut which is when James jumps to her defense. Caralie questions whether he slept with Kaden's mother (not completely expecting an answer) and James admits that he did in fact sleep with Kaden's mother when he was sixteen (Kaden's mother was adopted so she and James are not blood related). So of course Caralie asks the only logical question of if James is Kaden's father or not (which he isn't). That is when Kaden goes ballistic and chucks a can of soup at Jame and sorms out of the apartment. He heads to a nearby which is where Caralie finds him. He tells Caralie how his brother really died in Iraq. His brother was captured, tortured and killed then left by the side of the road. Caralie and Kaden are sitting by the pool and Caralie's only way of comforting Kaden is by having sex with him (-__-). They have sex inside of the pool. They go back to Caralie's house and they have sex yet again. Kade wakes up to find James sitting at the end of Caralie's bed smoking a cigarette. James and Kaden fight about the fact that Kaden had sex with Caralie. Kaden then finds a hotel near the airport (because he is leaving in two days). Somehow Caralie find him and lets him know that her and James are splitting from eachother but that James is worried about how he is doing. Caralie passes the info about Kaden on to James and James goes to visit Kaden at the hotel. They talk about how sometimes it is best just to keep some things to themselves and that Kaden's mother should not know about what happened in San Francisco in the past week.
QUOTE
"They snapped off his fingers and cut off his balls before slitting his throat and leaving his body on the side of the road like a piece of fucking garbage" (Myers 316)
SUMMARY
I just dont know what to say about what happened in the last part of this book. its just like...woah! Kaden world just unraveled in a matter of a few hours. I wish that the story would have continued on to when he goes back home. I wanted to know how he would see his mom after he learned all of this about her. Kaden actually handled the situation pretty well, in my opinion. He didnt go overdosingon drugs nor did he go into a deep depression or anything crazy like that.
Kaden is now wondering around San Francisco alone and decides that it was time to go back to James's house. When he reaches James's house he finds a note telling Kaden where James is and that he should meet him there immediately. When Kaden reaches the whip pad he overhears James and Caralie talking about how they lost him. They get on the topic of Kaden's parents and then the "stuff" really starts to hit the fan. James gets to talking about Kaden's mother and how she really didnt mean to get pregnant and that Kaden's father isn't really his father. No one really knows who Kaden's father is. Caralie then calls Kaden's mother a slut which is when James jumps to her defense. Caralie questions whether he slept with Kaden's mother (not completely expecting an answer) and James admits that he did in fact sleep with Kaden's mother when he was sixteen (Kaden's mother was adopted so she and James are not blood related). So of course Caralie asks the only logical question of if James is Kaden's father or not (which he isn't). That is when Kaden goes ballistic and chucks a can of soup at Jame and sorms out of the apartment. He heads to a nearby which is where Caralie finds him. He tells Caralie how his brother really died in Iraq. His brother was captured, tortured and killed then left by the side of the road. Caralie and Kaden are sitting by the pool and Caralie's only way of comforting Kaden is by having sex with him (-__-). They have sex inside of the pool. They go back to Caralie's house and they have sex yet again. Kade wakes up to find James sitting at the end of Caralie's bed smoking a cigarette. James and Kaden fight about the fact that Kaden had sex with Caralie. Kaden then finds a hotel near the airport (because he is leaving in two days). Somehow Caralie find him and lets him know that her and James are splitting from eachother but that James is worried about how he is doing. Caralie passes the info about Kaden on to James and James goes to visit Kaden at the hotel. They talk about how sometimes it is best just to keep some things to themselves and that Kaden's mother should not know about what happened in San Francisco in the past week.
QUOTE
"They snapped off his fingers and cut off his balls before slitting his throat and leaving his body on the side of the road like a piece of fucking garbage" (Myers 316)
SUMMARY
I just dont know what to say about what happened in the last part of this book. its just like...woah! Kaden world just unraveled in a matter of a few hours. I wish that the story would have continued on to when he goes back home. I wanted to know how he would see his mom after he learned all of this about her. Kaden actually handled the situation pretty well, in my opinion. He didnt go overdosingon drugs nor did he go into a deep depression or anything crazy like that.
Monday, December 13, 2010
The Mission by Jason Myers p.239-301
SUMMARY
Now Kaden is back with james and his life is now back in jepoardy. Caralie drops Kaden off back at James's apartment. James starts to ask Kaden about what Caralie has been doing while James is not around. Kaden is really starting to get angry with James because james treats Caralie like a piece of crap. James takes Kaden to yet another drug dealers house by the name of Damien. Damien is a little more Dangerous than the other petty drug dealers that Kaden has met before. James has loaded guns in his apartments as well as mounds of drugs throughout the whole aprtment. When Kaden and James are almost ready to leave Kaden must not have been thinking because he touched one of Damien's guns and Damien all of a sudden points his gun at Kaden's head. Kaden is frozen with fear and Damien's finger is on the trigger. James hurriedly persuades Damien to not shoot Kaden. They quickly leave before Damien does anything else to harm kaden.
QUOTE
"Damien jumos in the air and pulls a fucking gun from his waist , points it at me, and cocks it" (Myers 261)
SUMMARY
Kaden's trip to San Francisco is a huge emotional rollercoaster. He gets insanely happy but whenever he gets back up with James, he almost gets killed and is always forced to take some coke (cocaine). Kaden is really now bewildered with the life of James and basically doesn't know what to do while he's around james and his friends. I predict that from this point in the book to the end, everything will come crashing down in a VERY big way :(
Now Kaden is back with james and his life is now back in jepoardy. Caralie drops Kaden off back at James's apartment. James starts to ask Kaden about what Caralie has been doing while James is not around. Kaden is really starting to get angry with James because james treats Caralie like a piece of crap. James takes Kaden to yet another drug dealers house by the name of Damien. Damien is a little more Dangerous than the other petty drug dealers that Kaden has met before. James has loaded guns in his apartments as well as mounds of drugs throughout the whole aprtment. When Kaden and James are almost ready to leave Kaden must not have been thinking because he touched one of Damien's guns and Damien all of a sudden points his gun at Kaden's head. Kaden is frozen with fear and Damien's finger is on the trigger. James hurriedly persuades Damien to not shoot Kaden. They quickly leave before Damien does anything else to harm kaden.
QUOTE
"Damien jumos in the air and pulls a fucking gun from his waist , points it at me, and cocks it" (Myers 261)
SUMMARY
Kaden's trip to San Francisco is a huge emotional rollercoaster. He gets insanely happy but whenever he gets back up with James, he almost gets killed and is always forced to take some coke (cocaine). Kaden is really now bewildered with the life of James and basically doesn't know what to do while he's around james and his friends. I predict that from this point in the book to the end, everything will come crashing down in a VERY big way :(
The Mission by Jason Myers p.183-238
SUMMARY
Kaden now has basically experienced everything that James's life has to offer. He is quckly starting to miss his hometown and starts to think about his girlfriend back home named Jocelyn. He started to remember the last time they saw eachother before he went to San Francisco. They met at a remote field not to far from both of their houses. They sat and talked about what he might do in San Francisco. His only highlights from his experience from San Francisco are when he is with Caralie. he and caralie are in the downtown square and all of a sudden a large group of zombies come out of the woodwork. The zombies start touching random non-zombie civilians and they then become zombies. Caralie and Kaden both join into the hour long zombie tag and when they finished, kaden feels like that was the best experience of his so far in San Francisco.
QUOTE
"I turn back to Caralie. She winks, grabs my arm, and then someone yells out: 'ZOMBIE CRAWL!'" (Myers 212)
REACTION
Kaden's experience in San Francisco is starting to get much better than when he first got there. His experience was getting more innocent and more like what an actual visit to a place you have never been to should be like.He starts to share som of his experiences in Iowa with Caralie and talks alot about his girlfriend with Caralie. He and Caralie are also getting closer than he and James are. To me the stronger connection that he has with Caralie will lead to trouble with him and james.
Kaden now has basically experienced everything that James's life has to offer. He is quckly starting to miss his hometown and starts to think about his girlfriend back home named Jocelyn. He started to remember the last time they saw eachother before he went to San Francisco. They met at a remote field not to far from both of their houses. They sat and talked about what he might do in San Francisco. His only highlights from his experience from San Francisco are when he is with Caralie. he and caralie are in the downtown square and all of a sudden a large group of zombies come out of the woodwork. The zombies start touching random non-zombie civilians and they then become zombies. Caralie and Kaden both join into the hour long zombie tag and when they finished, kaden feels like that was the best experience of his so far in San Francisco.
QUOTE
"I turn back to Caralie. She winks, grabs my arm, and then someone yells out: 'ZOMBIE CRAWL!'" (Myers 212)
REACTION
Kaden's experience in San Francisco is starting to get much better than when he first got there. His experience was getting more innocent and more like what an actual visit to a place you have never been to should be like.He starts to share som of his experiences in Iowa with Caralie and talks alot about his girlfriend with Caralie. He and Caralie are also getting closer than he and James are. To me the stronger connection that he has with Caralie will lead to trouble with him and james.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Mission by Jason Myers P.92-181
SUMMARY
Kaden has his first line of coke at a party that James has ditched him at. He and two other girls cut up a line of coke and they each took turns snorting one line each. Kaden gets insanely high and ends up roaming the streets of San Francisco in one of the worst parts of the city. He calls up Jmaes's girlfriend Caralie to come and pick him up from a Popeye's restaurant. She lets him stay at her place until she can find where James has went off to. Kaden is starting to develop a really large crush on Caralie and starts to feel contempt towards James.
QUOTES
"The White Monster turns the wheels from down inside and keeps the machine running, keeps me on the go, the white monster running everything and wielding his power with epic screaming and chanting from the gutter in my brain" (Myers 123)
REACTION
THIS IS LITERALLY THE CRAZIEST BOOK I EVER READ! Kaden is getting thrown further and further into James's twisted world. This is when Kaden really start to immerse him self into the crazy world of James. James seems not to really be a good influence on kaden and seems like he doesn't want to be bothered with him. Kaden is going to end up getting hurt if James keeps neglecting him the way he is.
Kaden has his first line of coke at a party that James has ditched him at. He and two other girls cut up a line of coke and they each took turns snorting one line each. Kaden gets insanely high and ends up roaming the streets of San Francisco in one of the worst parts of the city. He calls up Jmaes's girlfriend Caralie to come and pick him up from a Popeye's restaurant. She lets him stay at her place until she can find where James has went off to. Kaden is starting to develop a really large crush on Caralie and starts to feel contempt towards James.
QUOTES
"The White Monster turns the wheels from down inside and keeps the machine running, keeps me on the go, the white monster running everything and wielding his power with epic screaming and chanting from the gutter in my brain" (Myers 123)
REACTION
THIS IS LITERALLY THE CRAZIEST BOOK I EVER READ! Kaden is getting thrown further and further into James's twisted world. This is when Kaden really start to immerse him self into the crazy world of James. James seems not to really be a good influence on kaden and seems like he doesn't want to be bothered with him. Kaden is going to end up getting hurt if James keeps neglecting him the way he is.
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