How Teen Experiences Affect Your Teenage Brain For Life

The dictionary defines experience as the process of doing and seeing things and of having things happen too. In How Teen Experiences Affect Your Teenage Brain For Life by Russ Juskalian, A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Night by Elie Wiesel demonstrate how experiences shape identities. Everyone has different experiences and get something out of it. How a person feels about it changes the way they see things. After each experience a person has, they either like it and continue doing it or they hate it and stop doing it. The things continued being done start to mold the person they become. For example, if a person likes to do sports and do them all the time they’ll be considered athletic or a jock. In the novel A Separate Peace one of the main characters, Finny, is really good at sports. He never loses and in the best in his school. “No one but Phineas could think up such a crazy idea. He of course saw nothing of slightest bit intimidating about it. He wouldn’t, or wouldn’t admit it if he did. Not Phineas”(Knowles,14). Since he was so good at sports the people around him shaped him into a leader. Being a leader comes with
For example If a teenager falls out of a tree and can never walk again the teen would never forget the accident. In the novel Night the main character, Elie, and his family got put into concentration camps during WWII. He was really religious and that’s all he cared about. “What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to you their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you do on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?”(Wiesel,66). Elie experiencing the camps made him lose this faith. His religions is what mostly shaped his identity. Losing his faith meant losing his