This weeks discussion will be focused on the way adolescents are treated and how it is seen through Alice's eyes. While writing in her diary her thoughts scattered upon the page as, "Adolescents have a rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature" (Anonymous 80). I for one can relate to Alice's statement, it stood out to me so much that in my findings of new events in Alice's life, I've decided to share this one comment. Most going through high school experience constant phases, trying to figure out who they are, and what their point of existence is. It never seems to help having parents give you responsibilities as an adult and then in return being treated like a child. We are young yes, but our minds constantly grow, the earning for intelligence and knowledge grows within us everyday, yet it seems like we're just expected to succeed. "It is a difficult, lost, vacillating time. Perhaps I have past over the worst part" (Anonymous 82).
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