The Program Thesis

In Michael Lehmann’s facetious Heathers, various characters display their perspectives on the complications and difficulties of navigating the dynamics of adolescence. The teenage years are known throughout American culture to be some of the most trying times in one’s life. The pressures of fitting in, being popular, and feeling loved can become so important to teens, often close to obsessions. JD is someone who sees the falsehood behind these needs and looks down on those who epitomize them. While shown in an exaggerated form, JD’s animosity towards those in the popular clique reveals itself to the extreme.

I have never read a piece of work that was so brutally honest about self-identity, anger, despair and most importantly about hope. In the memoir, we have an adolescent Tobias living with his abusive step father and a loving but worn down mother. He has a thirst for reinventing himself and he sees that happening by going to a prep school. The writer uses an unconventional sense of resourcefulness to get himself into the prep schools by tooth and nail, all the while dealing with abandonment issues from his

Unfortunately suicide is the absolute result of conditions such as untreated depression, negative events in one’s life, stress and other occurrences. Sadly suicide rates have only been increasing (according to numbers that the story provides). Janice Mirikitani’s poem “Suicide Note” specifically expresses her struggle in pleasing her parents by emphasizing no matter how hard she tries, she simply is not good enough. Mirikitani explains in lines nine through twenty her effort to fulfill her parents; line ten mentions that if only she were a son, maybe she would satisfy her parents.

When all the money that they saved up got taken from them Jeannette arragnge for lori to be taken to new york after she is done babbysitting for someone in the

Detective Jasmine Steele has an obsession with death trying to connect the dots believing that somehow every case that comes across her path is connected to Officer Garrison. It doesn’t matter he is dead since she is sure there is more. In her basement a wall stands as she strings the lines to connect the dots determined to solve the death of her brother and all who may be involved in shooting her. Her girlfriend, friend and therapist Frankie is afraid she’s losing her again determined to hang on to raise Jazz’s brother’s son Chase hoping for children of their own and their future. Jazz has more than an obsession as revenge plays on her mind.

Daisy had gone to bed angry. She'd always known that her parents did awful things down in the lower levels of the facility. It was the only justification she knew of that would keep them from allowing her below. By the time she'd turned fifteen she'd started to hack into her father's files. She began to see with her own eyes through his video logs what was happening.

Leo decides to won her again to have his wife back, but her ex-fiance Jeremy is courting Paige and she dose not know why she had broken with him. When Paige wakes from a coma following a car accident she has no memory at all of the last few years of her life or of her loving husband Leo. She remembers living chose between the life she knows. A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she

When she learns she has cancer, this becomes too much for the boyfriend who then breaks up with her, leaving her all alone. She apparently had nobody in her life but the boyfriend. Not her mother, father, siblings, coworkers,

After a suicide attempt it becomes evident that she is emotionally unstable and feels trapped with no way to advance her life. A mix up with the Visa’s makes it impossible for the couple to return home for Christmas which devastates Abby because

Sociological Paradigms A clear understanding of Donna Gaines’ Teenage Wasteland is important for the clarification of the choice of sociological paradigm in this regard. The issues and questions raised by Gaines (1990) are sensitive issues that are of great reality, even nowadays. In most cases, different reasons are raised based on how kids commit suicides, especially when they are frustrated and do not have whom to interact with to explain their pains, their wants, and their desires.

Lincoln and Jordan reach the real world and try to right what is wrong with what Dr. Merrick is doing. If Lincoln and Jordan stay and do not examine their life, their life is truly not worth

While it stirs them from the norm, it also enlightens Lilly as to what she’s missing in her life, and what she desires most in her relationship with Morgan. A connection of family and care can be easily sensed between Lilly and Morgan given how they converse about Morgan’s recent heart attack and Lilly’s nightly sleeping pills. The concern, however, comes off as cold and mandatory rather than genuine affection, highlighting the key issue in their relationship; the exhaustion of the normal. The dysfunction of their marriage comes to light even further as Parker, bleeding from the head, stumbles into their bedroom one night.

As well as exploring serious themes that teenagers can relate to such as being confronted with consequential choices about life and love that can determine their lives, even more so than in adults. I was curious on what the authors actual purpose was so I found online an interview with Forman explaining why she wrote this

This could implement teens with the idea that they should not resolve their own troubles. According to “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest a portrait of despair in on dimension” the article states “Bibbit’s ultimate failure to stand up to Miss Ratched, and his consequent suicide are designed to show us that the struggle is useless, that the best alternative is escape... yet escape in this case is no liberation but merely a gravitation away from the center of tension” (Nostrand 25). Students need to be taught that they should be capable to express their opinions in an open and safe environment rather than hiding away as seen in the characters from the novel. This expresses that those who forget their personal struggles were capable of becoming free through negative alternatives that in the long run mentally destabilize a human being.

The last task is simple. On a date set by the administrator, the victim just has to jump off a building, hang or any other means to end his or her life. Cuts, burns, asphyxiation, the list of ways by which adolescents are willing to self-harm and even die in the name of a challenge is bewildering and it makes sense to step back from the hysteria and hearsay and try to understand the psychological dynamics of a teen mind and peer pressure. Now for many the proverbial elephant in the room has transformed into a Blue Whale and the