Perplexed Teens:
An Essay about Problems Faced by Teenagers
An Essay by Gaelen Frink
Eighth Grade English
Pine Point School
April 6, 2011
Teens or teenagers here in Stonington, in the US and in World face many problems throughout their life, but the teen years are especially problematic. In the year 2011 some problems faced by teenagers could be anything, but I thought that the problem of parents getting divorced was a big problem because so many parents get divorced these days. A problem that I face time and time again is the lack of free time, and this problem doesn’t leave me much time to do what I want to do. Teenagers of 2011 face many problems and I as a teenagers have my share of problems.
Teenagers face many problems on a whole host of topics from trouble with bullies to your parent’s divorce. One problem between an older and younger sibling can be, sibling rivalry. This rivalry can be bodily disagreements like punching, hitting, wrestling and kicking, but this rivalry can also be verbal abuse where these two siblings insult one another, and call each other mean names until one gets too hurt by what the other said, and he/she falls apart and cries from sadness. Not only is this fighting bad for these two siblings, but this is bad for the whole family from the stress of breaking up struggles. Another problem teenager’s face is the possibility of their parent’s getting divorced or splitting up. When your parents get divorced, a declaration dissolving a marriage, this disconnects the family and this forces the teenager to live at two homes. If one of the parents finds a new partner the teenager then has to learn to accept and welcome this new person into the family. One problem some teenagers face at school or other places is the problem of bullying. Bullying is an issue throughout the country and probably in the world. The bullying dilemma has many forms, cyber bullying, physical bullying and emotional bullying, even though there are many forms they are all equally bad. Some teenagers face one big problem in their life, like their parents divorce, while other teenagers face many small problems.
In my teen years and years before I have faced a few struggles. One being a younger brother to an older brother means many things for me. Sometimes he can be looked up to and I really admire him. On the other hand at other times in my life he can be very mean and very quick to punch me, but when I punch him back I get blamed and in trouble. Another problem is no free time sometimes then lots of free time on other nights. This could be from the increase of homework from lower to middle school because we went from half an hour to an hour of homework to three hours, and this leaves us no free time, but on some nights we barely have anything to do. So sometimes one wishes we didn’t receive so much homework so we could do more of what we want to do. Another problem I sometimes face is the problem of insulting and aggravating comments. Sometimes people will insult the way I look or the way I do things and sometimes they even make fun of what I say. While some of these comments I don’t take, but the other comments hurt me deep inside, but it doesn’t show at least not sometimes. Sometimes I only realize what people have said until I stop and think about what was said. My problems may be petty to some people, but to me they are important, these are my problems as a teenager in 2011.
When you think of being a teenager when you are young you think that it will be great because you will have so much freedom, but this freedom is taken away by your problems. From the problems of 2011 teenagers divorce is probably the biggest to me, but there are many other problems other people face that some people don’t even know about. Many people don’t know about some of my problems but that is the way I like to keep it. Problems, everyone faces them teens face many because these are the self conscious years, but teens face many.
Self Assessment:
- Thing writing issue I am continuing to work on is the problem of using unnecessary words. This is a problem because it makes some sentences awkward.
- A strong point in this essay is my long sentences which help compliment my writing by the way they flow.
- A possible weak point I see in this essay is the problem of using too many commas where they don’t belong.
- A grade that I would give myself would be a B to a B+.
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