Teenage Wasteland

These days relationships between parents and children are tough, especially with society at the front door. In the story “Teenage Wasteland” By: Anne Tyler the main issue is stating what it basically means to be a young person or teenager. Rebellious Teen Donny is what is known as a problem child, and Daisy cannot seem to figure out what his problem is. Through many attempts she tries to reach him through counselors, and outside help. This story reveals a lack of communication, feelings of inadequacy, and lack of parental control. These days relationships between parents and children are tough, especially with society at the front door.
In the story “Teenage Wasteland” Anne Tyler writes about a young teenager that makes some bad choices for
Kevin raised his hand while the teacher was talking to ask such a simple question but the teacher fired back with “Mr. Derrig, why do I have a feeling that this another one of your dumb comments. You constantly waste my time. Why don’t you just drop out or something?”. That statement triggered Kevin in the worst possible way, Kevin replied with a completely reasonable reason to basically tell the teacher to watch what he/she is saying because something so easy could be make into a way bigger deal than it should have been. In my opinion I think that Kevin had all the reason to backfire at the teacher with a statement in honor of all of the other students that have been shot down because of some maybe false or older actions that occurred at the wrong time.
In conclusion Donny from the story “Teenage Wasteland” By: Anne Tyler truly defined what it honestly means to be a young child or teenager in today’s generation. In the story “First Period” By: Kevin Derrig Kevin was completely misunderstood because some past issues in the class, prior to the story I think that Kevin was partially treated as if he always thinks of the same dumb ideas and asks the same dumb