Read an excerpt from another group's independent read.
Write a blog with the following format:
1. Include your name,
2. The title of the novel, and the name of the person's excerpt you are responding to.
3. What is the tone of the excerpt you have read? Be precise. See tone words below.
4. Compare and contrast the excerpt with what your independent read. Focus on subject matter, methods of research, ways of persuasion, causes, effects, etc...
Positive Tone/Attitude Words
Amiable
Amused
Appreciative
Authoritative
Benevolent
Brave
Calm
Cheerful
Cheery
Compassionate
Complimentary
Confident
Negative Tone/Attitude Words
Accusing
Aggravated
Agitated
Angry
Apathetic
Arrogant
Artificial
Audacious
Belligerent
Bitter
Boring
Brash
Childish
Humor-Irony-Sarcasm Tone/Attitude Words
Amused
Bantering
Bitter
Caustic
Comical
Condescending
Contemptuous
Critical
Cynical
Disdainful
Consoling
Content
Dreamy
Ecstatic
Elated
Elevated
Encouraging
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Excited
Exuberant
Fanciful
Friendly
Happy
Hopeful
Impassioned
Jovial
Joyful
Jubilant
Lighthearted
Loving
Optimistic
Passionate
Peaceful
Playful
Pleasant
Proud
Relaxed
Reverent
Romantic
Soothing
Surprised
Sweet
Sympathetic
Vibrant
Whimsical
Choleric
Coarse
Cold
Condemnatory
Condescending
Contradictory
Critical
Desperate
Disappointed
Disgruntled
Disgusted
Disinterested
Facetious
Furious
Harsh
Haughty
Hateful
Hurtful
Indignant
Inflammatory
Insulting
Irritated
Manipulative
Obnoxious
Outraged
Passive
Quarrelsome
Shameful
Smooth
Snooty
Superficial
Surly
Testy
Threatening
Tired
Uninterested
Wrathful
Droll
Facetious
Flippant
Giddy
Humorous
Insolent
Ironic
Irreverent
Joking
Malicious
Mock-heroic
Mocking
Mock-serious
Patronizing
Pompous
Quizzical
Ribald
Ridiculing
Sad
Sarcastic
Sardonic
Satiric
Scornful
Sharp
Silly
Taunting
Teasing
Whimsical
Wry
Sorrow-Fear-Worry Tone/Attitude Words
Aggravated
Agitated
Anxious
Apologetic
Apprehensive
Concerned
Confused
Dejected
Depressed
Despairing
Disturbed
Neutral Tone/Attitude Words
Admonitory
Allusive
Apathetic
Authoritative
Baffled
Callous
Candid
Ceremonial
Clinical
Consoling
Contemplative
Conventional
Detached
Didactic
Disbelieving
Embarrassed
Fearful
Foreboding
Gloomy
Grave
Hollow
Hopeless
Horrific
Horror
Melancholy
Miserable
Morose
Mournful
Nervous
Numb
Ominous
Paranoid
Pessimistic
Pitiful
Poignant
Regretful
Remorseful
Resigned
Sad
Serious
Sober
Solemn
Somber
Staid
Upset
Dramatic
Earnest
Expectant
Factual
Fervent
Formal
Forthright
Frivolous
Haughty
Histrionic
Humble
Incredulous
Informative
Inquisitive
Instructive
Intimae
Judgmental
Learned
Loud
Lyrical
Matter-of-fact
Meditative
Nostalgic
Objective
Obsequious
Patriotic
Persuasive
Pleading
Pretentious
Provocative
Questioning
Reflective
Reminiscent
Resigned
Restrained
Seductive
Sentimental
Serious
Shocking
Sincere
Unemotional
Urgent
Vexed
Wistful
Zealous
Hello it's Rikki Fearon I read the introduction to Queen Bees and wannabes. Wiseman's tone comes off as informative and consoling towards present day parents dealing with adolescents. She places herself in the light of an old war veteran with an almost arrogant air, as she writes what she believes is being said by her readers and the questions they seek answers to. Her conclusions are simple and stationary. She uses common language and has no borrowed passages from other experts in her field to help support her findings. She is not emotionally connected to what she finds, instead she takes are more scholarly perspective and pities those who must struggle to discover the way of adolescent life and attempts to ease their frustration by sharing her findings. Chap Clark on the other hand (book is hurt) puts on the tone of an uncertain explorer and scientist. He is self doubting and confesses his uncertainty in the credibility of his findings. To acquire his conclusions he uses passages from others in his field to support his hypothesis along with his own experience with adolescents, observations, and one on one interviews. The topics of these authors also vary in magnitude. Wiseman is out to unviel the society of adolescent girls while Clark takes a bolder approach and attempts to uncover the source of emotional pain endured by today's adolescents.
ReplyDeleteEmily Martin- Reviving Ophelia.
ReplyDeleteResponding to Alyssa Pepper- Queen Bees and Wannabes.
The tone of the excerpt is a combination of apprehensive and the feeling of disappointment. As the girls raised their hands slowly, it showed that they were apprehensive and nervous to tell the truth about how they treat other people. Their nervous laughs after they had opened their eyes showed that they were insecure but actually disappointed to see how many people had raised their hands.
Reviving Ophelia and Queen Bees and Wannabes have similar topics that are discussed. In this short excerpt from the story, it is similar in ways such that they both address how girls treat others. Most girls have hurt someone else or talked behind anothers back, and these situations are present in both of the books. Unlike Queen Bees and Wannabes, Reviving Ophelia uses experiences and stories that are told by patients.
Gina Iglehart-Born to Buy
ReplyDeleteIn response to Odd Girl Out-Melissa Gahungu
This text is directed towards parents dealing with girls dealing with bullying. The author describes in detail the “sequestering of anger” and aggression that teenage girls go through on a daily basis. The tone of the excerpt I read is, I think, apathetic and somewhat indifferent. In my opinion, the author’s attitude in this particular exert makes it seem as though she just sat back and observed a group of teenagers. She only describes how girls manipulate and anger one another but does explain deeper emotions. She does, though, seem irritated at today’s generation due to the fact that she repeats “anger” and “aggression” and it seems that she doubts today’s youth. The author seems takes an intellectual point of view. Although “Odd Girl Out” and “Born to Buy” contain different subject matter, both novels contain similarities. They both talk about different yet still negative influence on today’s youth and describe the results in a cause and effect matter. “Born to Buy”’s method of research involves specific graphs and statistics whereas “Odd Girl Out” explains in a more general, broad matter that can be applied to generally every teenager in the world.
Hailey Harn- Queenbees and Wannabes
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Irene Kim- Odd Girl Out
The tone in this passage is one of shame. the author feels that teens care too much about who they are seen with, and being seen alone. The thought of being labeled "loner" or "reject," is unbearable. Simmons feels that teens hyperbolize the situation, and should worry less. As a result of worrying less, they teens will become less stressed, depressed, adn overwhelmed by what other's may conceive of them. Both novels display facts regarding the social perceptions that teens are afraid of being associated with. This topic is seen in both books, and is obviously an issue in the teen world today. Each of the books has similar aspects such as the use of quotes taken from the mouths of average kids in today's society, that feel affected by this issue.
Irene Kim : Odd Girl out
ReplyDeleteResponding To : Avneet-Queen Bees and Wannabees
Disappointment seems to fit the tone of this passage. The author, Rosalind Wiseman, explains but seems to mock the modern routines of this world. How mothers urge their daughters to become more 'woman-like' and turn them into something that they are not. I think that both books seem to deal with what others think about you. Some pity, and some attempt to pressure someone into doing unlikely actions. From whatever different point of view, someone is being 'cornered' or 'overwhelmed' with advice whether it be sympathetic or harsh. Another smiliarity between the two books is the emphasis on what others see of you. They express these opinions of others through, fakeness, humility, bullying, etc.
Semi Lee- Odd Girl Out
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Sofia - Reviving Ophelia
The excerpt of the text reveals that it is a very depressing and melancholy tone. Giving the limit of expectations of girls make it harder for them to reveal their true selves to one another. The text deals with girls having limited power of themselves and is resentful to do other stuff they are not allowed to do. The adolescent girls have set expectations from the males. The society are very judgmental towards the women and it's harder for the women to do what they want to do.
Odd Girl Out and and Reviving Ophelia have different goals to each other. Odd Girl Out is about why girls in their junior or high school year are being bullied. Reviving Ophelia is about the women having set expectations from their society. Although the way of interviewing their victims are similar because they are interviewing them and the research they've found is by interviewing different women.
Scott Fragale- Queen Bees and Wannabes
ReplyDeleteResponding to:Kristen Kenneally-Reviving Ophelia
The overall tone of this passage is a dejecting one. It is a depressing portrayal of the media's effect on the female adolecence. Women are negatively portrayed in advertisements created by men. The author shows biterness towards men.
Although the content and goals of Reviving Ophelia and Queen Bees and Wannabees are similar, the authors go about discussing topics in diffrent ways. Both novels attempt to restore the image of teenage girls. Queen Bees and Wannabes uses more of a neutral to positive tone unlike Reviving Ophelia's neagtive tone. Although it is gone about diffrently, both books accomplish their goal.
Ricky Valentine - Hurt:inside the world of today's Teenagers
ReplyDeleteResponse to: Kaila Sells Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
In the passage of this novel, the tone is a mixture of melancholy with a sense of optimism for the future. An example of melancholy is when the author emphasizes that teenagers don't fit anywhere. But this is quickly countered when the author reminds us that teenagers are growing and changing everyday, giving hope to the future.
Being compared to my excerpt, the tone is similar in meaning, but different in word-choice. Chap Clark, author of Hurt, uses an extremely agitated tone towards adults, and an apprehensive one towards the adolescents themselves. For instance, Clark states that "the fact is that adolescents need adults to become adults, and when adults are not present and involved in their lives, they are forced to figure out how to survive on their own"(43). This passage the author is very sympathetic towards the adolescents, and almost scolds at adults for not being there for them.
1. James Porter- Hurt
ReplyDelete2. Responding to Chris Meyer- Born to Buy
3. The tone of this passage is disgust, outrage, and disappointment. The author is disgusted that parents spend money on their children as a substitute for not spending time with them. The author is also outraged that marketers are taking advantage of the power of guilt to increase their profits. Lastly, he is disappointed that parents have to buy toys for their children instead of spending time with them.
4. The books, Born to Buy and Hurt, differ in many aspects. In the book, Born to Buy, the author explains the influence of marketing on children and the issues that parents and children have with marketing. While in the book, Hurt, the author describes the world of teenagers and what has caused them to change from previous generations. These authors share in common the way they obtained their information. The authors interviewed and observed teenagers, children, and adults and recorded their findings in these books.
Tim Mauss: Queenbees and Wannabes
ReplyDeleteResponding to Kenny Ahlstrom:Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
3. The author speaks in a concerned nature when talking about the changes to girls' personalities as they go through adolescence. The author holds a certain amount of sympathy for the parents, and the teenage girls themselves who undergo increased stress and confusion. She is saddened about the unfortunate nature of the behavioral changes, expressing deep sympathies for all those involved.
4. Queen bees and Wannabes, and Reviving Ophelia have similar subject matter in that they bring to light the difficulties faced by teenage girls entering adolescence. However, Reviving Ophelia seems to focus more on the individual, and their own problems as opposed to Queen Bees and Wannabes which takes a closer look at the social relations between girls. The authors of each book seem to speak from experience in dealing with the issues surrounding adolescent young ladies. Each book provides a helpful reference point for parents in dealing with their adolescent daughters.
Heidi Kim
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Avneet - Queen Bees and Wannabees
The author's tone in the passage seems to be disappointment. The author is disappointed in the fact that mothers seem to be a part of female bullying. She believes that mothers push their daughters to act older by giving in to modern culture and giving access to their daughters to be unkind and cruel. She thinks mothers try to bond with their children by buying them things instead of spending time with them like she had with her mother as a child. While this passage from Queen Bees and Wannabees was filled with disappointment, the excerpt from Odd Girl Out, was sympathetic towards girls who were bullied. The passage from Odd Girl Out was written with facts while the segment from Queen Bees and Wannabees was more opinionated. But both books talk about the reasons for female bullying and the effect it has on girls.
Kenny Ahlstrom
ReplyDeleteIn response to Chris Bristol: Queen Bees and Wannabes
The tone of the passage is negative and angry. It portrays girls are backstabbing and untrustworthy through the words 'humiliating downfall' and 'evildoer.' She is astonished at the actions of the daughter or close friend are does not fully understand why this happens. This excerpt seems to be fairly similar to the writing style used in my independent read: Reviving Ophelia. The author states what is happening to girls and how it is different from earlier times and then comments on it. Both books portray girls as nasty and brutal. Reviving Ophelia seems to take a less direct approach, however. Queen Bees and Wannabes gets right to the point and tell you that your daughter is evil.
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ReplyDeleteMelissa Gahungu
ReplyDeleteResponding to:Tim Mauss
The tone of the passage is consoling.
Odd girl Out, the book that I'm reading and Queen Bees and Wannabees, Tim's book, are very similar in that they both talk about girl on girl bullying.The difference is that the author in Queen Bees explains cliques as acceptable. The author of Odd Girl Out was once bullied and is against cliques and other defenses that girls use. She doesn't say their believe in them like the other author does. With both books, they are a guide to deal with girl bullying.
October 12, 2010 7:56 PM
Sofia Roberts
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Rikki Fearon and her passage from Hurt
The tone of her passage is depression, sadness, and yearning. In her passage a teenager has lost her way and she feels lost and depressed about her life and about who she is. She is also yearning for someone to love and care for her but since she doesn't have a parental figure who does, she expresses her sadness in this passage.
The book I am reading, Reviving Ophelia, and Rikki's book both have the same subject matter because they both focus on the adolescent, the things that affect them, and the hurt they feel inside. They also use the same methods of research because they both interview different teenagers on their experience but they all seem to be experiencing the same feelings, pressures, pains, and thoughts. And they both show how the adolecence in America is struggling and that they need help.
Ryan O'Neil
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Rikki Fearon
The tone of this excerpt is extremely lonely and self-dependent. While Rikki's book deals with abandonment of young adolescents. Her book's author discusses the many complications that can occur when a teenager is left separated from their parents. Born to Buy deals with the self awareness that the world is full of different brand names and many styles to chose from. I believe that both books deal with loneliness and separation from the rest of the world whether it be an abandonment issue or a realization about the world that no one else seems to comprehend or see with their own eyes.
Alyssa Pepper- Queen Bees & Wannabes
ReplyDeleteSemi Lee- Odd Girl Out
The excerpt has an agitated tone as the author describes many girls telling the same story; the girls tell stories of other girls gossiping and exploiting the insecurities of others to move themselves up the social hierarchy. As the author talks to the girl, she finds that everyone has experienced people lying about them or to them or others spreading hurtful rumors around.With each girl repeating what the author has heard many times before, it insures a feeling of concern in the author.
Odd Girl Out and Queen Bees & Wannabes are very similar to each other. Both showed that even the people affected worse by the gossiping have been victims to it. Also, admitting that the girls themselves have gossiped about each other, they seemed ashamed of themselves. The researching for the excerpts was done the same way as well. The authors both reached out to girls and asked what they thought about gossiping, and who partakes in it. The difference is that Odd Girl Out explained why girls gossiped about each other while Queen Bees & Wannabes did not.
Avneet Kaur: Queen Bees & Wannabes
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Irene Kim: Odd Girl Out
The tone is negative because of the depressing and angering realities of girls in these present days. The author is angered because girls do not have much self confidence and they do not believe in themselves. She is somewhat sad at the thought that most girls are no longer headstrong. The author knows and understands what these girls feel like from personal experiences shared with her. The author feels sorry for these girls, and it seems like she really wants to help them and make them realize that popularity is not a big deal, and if you are alone, you should interact with people and show them that you are not a loner. This book is very closely related to Queen Bees & wannabes because both authors feel the same about how girls are acting these days. They also both use personal experiences from rejected girls.
1. Matt Goulding: Born to Buy
ReplyDelete2. James Porter: Hurt
3. The tone of the passage is understanding and sympathetic. The author realizes that the American teenager is in a time of confusion and stress, therefore he feels he needs to inform his readers. The author knows that adult's view on teenagers is lacking sympathy, therefore the passage has an understanding tone to show the adults why teenagers have a stressful life.
4. Hurt and Born to Buy have many similarities and differences. Firstly, they are both written about what the American teenager has to go through every day. In Born to Buy, the author talks about how the teenager has to put up with his or her environment and the constant messages getting incepted into their brains. Hurt is about what the teenager has to put up with at school and at home. The major difference, however, is Hurt takes place in the teenager's home, and Born to Buy takes place in where teenagers and children shop.
Christine Smudde period 4 Reviving Ophelia
ReplyDeleteTim Mauss Excerpt from Queen Bees and Wannabees
“No matter how good a parent you are, how popular your daughter is, or how great her friends are, she'll run into problems with popularity and cliques. For better or worse, it's the experiences she has in the clique that will teach her volumes about friendship, support, understanding, power, and privilege. On a daily basis, she'll learn what kind of girl she has to be in order to be accepted by her group, and this will influence everything from her choice of boyfriend to the classes she takes, her after-school activities, her clothes, her hairstyles, the people she talks to , the people she doesn't talk to, her beliefs and values, and her overall sense of self. The common definition of a clique is an exclusive group of girls who are close friends. I see it a little differently. I see them as a platoon of soldier who have banded together to navigate the perils and insecurities of adolescence. There's a chain of command and they operate as one in their interactions with their environment." (19).
The tone of the passage is resigned and factual. The author knows cliques are an uncontrollable part of adolescence. She is trying to console parents who blame themselves for the person their daughter is becoming. The truth is the experiences faced in cliques will teach her what kind of girl she needs to be in order to be accepted by her peers; it will influence everything in her life.
Queen Bees and Wannabees differs from Reviving Ophelia because it appears to focus more on cliques while the other focuses on the negative influence of present day culture and media on adolescent girls. Both books inform their readers of the difficulties faced by teenage girls, however Queen Bees and Wannabees states facts directly and tries to console the readers because girl on girl bullying and drama is an inevitable part of adolescence. Reviving Ophelia criticizes culture and the author wants people to make changes to improve the idealistic expectations and brutal conditions in which teenage girls are growing up in.
Rachel Reinard: Queen Bees and Wannabees
ReplyDeleteResponding to: Ricky Valentine: Hurt, Inside the World of Today's Teenagers
Tone: The author's tone is very despairing and dramatic. The author also has a protective tone.
Comparison. Hurt is a lot more defensive of teenagers actions, where as Queen Bees and Wannabees puts more accountability on the teenage girls themselves. In Hurt, the author describes teenagers as misunderstood and pained beings. In Queenbees, the author describes girls as being in a constant struggle for political power and control.
Emily Alpaugh - Reviving Ophelia
ReplyDeleteIrene Kim - Odd Girl Out
Tone: The author is very matter-of-fact. The excerpt conveys a lonely and dark feeling. The reader is left with a sense of hopelessness.
Comparison: Both books are about the social issues of adolescent girls. Both are backed by scientific research and testimony. Both seem to single out characters and assume that whoever is reading the book is either troubled or the parent of a troubled child.
Chris Meyer: Born To Buy
ReplyDeleteResponding To: James Porter and his passage from Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers
The tone of the passage is accusing and belligerent towards adults because the author thinks that they have been ignoring teenagers and the changes they are having to go through during adolescence. Adults need to be more caring and understanding towards teenagers to help them as much as they can while the kids are young.
Born to Buy is about how companies try to get young children and teenagers to buy certain items while Hurt is more about why parents should be concerned but not controlling with their teenagers lives. The author of Hurt actually went around and lived with these kids in their daily lives through adolescence. While the author of of Born to Buy just explains different ways companies use their advertising to control adolescence. Hurt focuses on a much deeper level of the adolescent.
1. Jonathan Serrano: Hurt
ReplyDelete2. Kaila Sells: Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
3. The tone of the excerpt is concerning but allusive at the same time. The author states that teenagers can be wild. They either are childish at times or act totally formal and educated. It is as if the author thinks all teenagers are this way, which is not true. Though, she does state that teenager lives are rough at times. Sometimes they have mood swings which cause them to not act the way they usually do. Teenagers also have to face high school situations which could make their day either better, or worse. Overall, the author makes the point that teenagers have their harsh times which make them do rash things.
4. Hurt and Reviving Ophelia get the same meaning through different perspectives. Unlike the quote I read on Reviving, the book I am reading focused more on blaming social shifts and any adults who take care of teenagers. In Reviving Ophelia, teenagers act differently because of their feelings that they encounter in a situation. Despite them representing their ideas in different manners, they both try to come together by giving the same message: teenagers are not at fault for how they act to their environment.
Kristin Kenneally - Reviving Ophelia
ReplyDeleteAlyssa Pepper - Queen Bees and Wannabees
Tone: The author has a very matter-of-fact tone becasue she knows the answers she is going to receive from the girls she is interviewing.
Comparison: Both novels are based on the social issues surrounding adolescent and teenage girls. In Reviving Ophelia, the author describes how girls just want to feel accepted and fit in at school, while in Queen Bess and Wannabees the girls are striving to be at the top of the social pyramid. The two authors use personal interviews to base their findings.
1. Eunice Rah
ReplyDelete2. Queen Bees and Wannabes – Avneet
3. The author seems be baffled of how the parents are raising their children in the new generation. The author feels disturbed in the ways how parents are buying their children clothes that are inappropriate, giving their young girls pedicures that tend to be more for older teens and letting them sing to songs that influence them in negative ways. Mothers are pushing their children towards adulthood quicker, and it is not allowing girls to grow up properly. It seems as though the author is disappointed with the mother’s upbringings.
4. Compared to my excerpt, the meaning of subject is different since the author is soothing the bullied girls as compared to Queen Bees and Wannabes, where the author is slightly reprimanding the mothers for making their children to grow up too quickly. In the excerpt I copied, it is an observation along with thoughts of girls who were bullied themselves, while in this excerpt, the author tends to write down her opinions and accuse parents as the reasons to why children are growing up the way they are. In Odd Girl Out, the author gives her observations backed by her experiences along with many girls throughout the country, while in QBW, the author seems to reveal her thoughts and back it up by observation. However, both books are written in different words about different ways girls are suppressed within her community, especially her friends and family.
1. Kaila Sells-Reviving Ophelia
ReplyDelete2. Avneet Kaur-Queen Bees and Wannabes
"Is it starting earlier?
I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year-old can lip-sync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on YouTube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubescent daughters to manicures and pedicures. When I was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience- as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same things she did.
So it's not that girls are being pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, etc.). Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls are superficial and catty; toys and websites teach them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelry, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes".
3. The tone of this excerpt is critical and accusing. The author makes a point to emphasize the fact that it is the parents' fault that their daughters are difficult to deal with. She is saying that the parents' lack of control over the media their daughters are exposed to is what causes the process of adolescence to be so hard to endure. The author is saying that parents should be able to limit the amount of power the media has on their daughters' lives.
4. Both Reviving Ophelia and the excerpt focus on the difficulty of going through adolescence for girls. Both authors agree that the media has negative effects on teenage girls. In Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher states that the media places huge amounts of pressure on girls to be perfect. She blames the media and the harmful effects it has on girls for the negative changes that occur in the girls' lives. In Queen Bees and Wannabes, the author blames parents for exposing girls to the media. She accuses the parents of not controlling the way their daughters respond to the messages being sent to them. She says that parents should be able to control the amount of power the media has over their daughters' lives.
1. Chris Bristol - Queen Bees and Wannabees
ReplyDelete2. Responding to: Ricki Fearon - Hurt
"A lack of time with parents and other adults does not go unnoticed by adolescents. In facilitating a parent/youth event for community group in Seattle last fall, I asked students to compile a list of what they wanted adults to know about them. One of the most telling statements they recorded was how they perceived time with significant adults: "We spend no time with adults from junior high on-maybe fifteen minutes every other day is the best we ever get." It is as though adults don't understand that time spent with significant adults, especially parents, provides the most important environment for healthy adolescent development. But even in the best families, spending time together is a struggle" (52).
3. The tone of the excerpt is melancholy and despairing. The author emphasizes the lack of communication and bonding between parent and child and the struggles it causes. The author seeks to cure the problem but doesn't seem to truly know how or does not how to put it into effect.
4. "Hurt" is about the relationship between parent and child, similar to "Queen Bees and Wannabes". Both books seem to be researched by asking real teenagers and adults. However, while "Queen Bees" seeks to inform and teach positive attitudes and lifestyles, "Hurt" seems to focus more on the problems the American teenager faces with their parents and the world around them.