High School Life

Robert Revilla Mr. Osman English 35 31127 March 17, 2013 The Past and Present of Teenagers Ask both jejuner today and they will tell you that they are nothing standardised their parents, that their parents just dont understand them. This may be true and this may be false, it just depends on how you look at it. Teenagers of the Rebel With appear a shake, meaning the parents of todays teens, did face a lot of the same hassles and issues that we right by face. Yet I am left finding did the past teens face all the same troubles at the same time as we do and were some of their problems not as much of a problem as it is to us.Teens from the past and present are faced with problems such as school, relationships, and friends. There were many teenage problems adventure then in Rebel With surface a Cause and todays teenagers. Most of these problems that Jim terrible and the other teens faced were interchangeable, exactly my own belief is that these same problems were not as big of problem back when they were growing up. Lets take school and homework for example, oh sure your parents had it too just now I just dont believe that there was as much hug upon them to stick to good grades. Also, contain into a good college as there is for us.And of course with the knowledge that college is right more or less the corner just about teens also need to work. They need to save money for college, or a car, or to make the girl/boy of their dreams happy by taking them out on dates once in a while. Plus, all this pressure and work can build up for a teen and to most of us it seems like we never kick in a chance to just relax and hang out with friends anymore. It relates to the movie because some of the teens do not complaint about homework or going to school. The tenableness is that was back then it was easy to get a dividing line by only having a blue school diploma with no college education. besides, now in our teen lives it is hard to get a job with a high sch ool diploma. Another thing that is different from the past from the present is the fashion that students wear. In the past, boys wear plain regular clothes and the cool guys always wear black jackets or blazers. It is similar like what a gang member usually wears right now. Except the gangs aim their baggy knee pants or shorts and show their boxers in black or white. It is weird how those kind of guys like to show-off their boxers or underwear. For the girls in the past, they all generally put on dresses. Now girls mostly wear skirts or short shorts.Plus, girls always try to put on the sexiest clothes to wear because to get all the attention and be popular. Like in the movie, Jim Stark wears different clothes from his classmates. The rea parole is that he moved to a lot of different high schools because he never made any friends and doesnt fit in with the other teens. Also, in every high school he went to the teens called Jim, Chicken. wherefore he is called that because the teen agers see him acting like a chicken, when Jim does not require to get into trouble. I think back then music for teens like, Rebel Without a Cause, probably listened to stimulate and roll.But now teens favor rapping and hip hop music. Its interesting how music has changed so much in the past because teens love to get crazy on escape from and roll. I wonder how teens will react if music never came to rock and roll. Probably teens will make their own music or have to try out their parents music, which were more hip hop and dance music. Now teens today have a mix of genres they like to listen. Most teens in the present relate their music to their emotions. The reason is because they must have some problems in their lives and music helps teens release stress.Plus, I am sure that it go bys to the teens in the past pull up not big problems compare to our teen years. I bet Jim Stark and his classmates love to listen to rock and roll. Even though it does not show in the movie that they played rock and roll, but back then there was a lot of rock and roll. The teens in the early years prefer rock and roll because it was something they can be themselves with their friends. Sometimes parents cannot stand their teens music and tells them to turn it off or take it away from them. It is weird how in the movie, it shows parents like Jims parents how they do not aid about his school issues.For instance, when Jims classmates call him chicken, he tells them to stop and be angry to his parents. Then Jims parents decide to move somewhere else again, which happen several times. Jim does not want that because he thinks it is going to happen all over again. So, basically Jims parents do not really help him and his life that much. But comparing to todays teens, Jims parents and other parents show more concern for each of their son/daughters education to make them successful in life. I can see that every year new parents learn from their past seeing their mom and dad on how they take care of their son or daughter.Then later on the new parents learn from their parents mistakes and become a better parent. There are things that are similar between our time and the movie, Rebel Without a Cause. One is that teens hate doing homework and waking up early for school. Teens in the past and present fight back with their emotions like in relationships or family issues. Jim shows his emotions to his parents in the movie. He tells them how he feels every time when he transfers to a new school and he is not good at making any relationships or friends.The main(prenominal) reason is everyone calls him chicken because he is different from his classmates and they think he is afraid of them. I just want to say that I am not saying that teenagers of the past did not have their own problems, but of course they did, every single teen alive faces problems that they think is hard and that their whole world is crumbling mess around them well at least once in a while. But now tha t they have grown up and turned into the parents of todays teenagers I feel that they put more pressure upon their own teenage child in order for them to achieve more than they were able to.A common carriage is, My parents are so strict, overprotective, or too involved in my life, because they dont want me making the same mistakes they did when they were my age but they need to trust me and just leave me alone. And that expression can sometimes is kind of true. But all in all I feel that our parents do understand what we, as teenagers, are going through because they did face the same problems that we face today, but maybe with just a little less pressure.