Well, everyone is reading Youth in Revolt, aren't they! (Ms. Robbins, I hope I used the commas properly! :) )

Well, while reading Youth in Revolt by C.D Payne, it seems that the male figures in this book have very distinct ways of acting. I mean, i never really thought about what goes on in a boys mind, generally. Do they think about girls, music, etc. I suppose it's different for everyone. One thing that I think the boys and mainly all of the teens in this book think and talk about are their parents. I have noticed constantly through-out the book that Nick fights constantly with his mom, his dad, and most of his mother's boyfriends. Nick's friend Vijay also has a very interesting relationship with his parents. Witnessing all of these alliances really got me thinking about all the different ways people connect with their parents, and how different they all are.

Nick's family is very...discordant. By that I mean, his mother has about a million different boyfriends, and his dad, oh his dad! Lets just say that his dad isn't always understanding of Nick and his teen troubles. Anyway,  Nick always had a prickly personality towards his parents, and they return it right back. It kind of seems like they don't care about him, really. But, of course they do, I guess people just have different ways of showing it. For example, Vijay's parents are extremely protective of him and his sister. Obviously it could all be traced back to their culture and what they believe in. I do think its really interesting that C.D Payne included all of these different situations in his book. And, I think he was really trying to say something! Parents come in all shapes and sizes (haha! Corny, I know) and in Youth in Revolt these different shapes and sizes are displayed everywhere you look, and as the characters disobey them, and get in to fights with them, we see some things that are pretty common in the every day world. Nick's dad resolves to cursing at Nick, and making him pay rent, even though he's 14. Oh, and don't get me started on all of his mom's boyfriends! Most of them, especially Lance, have some sort of problem with Nick, and have no qualms presenting their feelings. Vijay's parents are super protective and try to shield him from the possible dangers of the world.

It is a fact of life that we fight with our parents. I mean, seriously is there one teen out there who has never disobeyed or fought with their parents? At my age, I have a pretty good relationship with my  parents, we don's fight or scream at each other (usually :) ), and I feel comfortable talking to them about things (most of the time). But, I know that not all people have it off that easy. There's abuse going on everywhere, and so many adolescents don't always feel safe around their parents. Aren't those the kinds of things that lead to kids running away? Looking around, I realize how lucky I am! And, while reading Youth in revolt, these fights with Nick's parent may seem normal to Nick, who has to deal with it everyday, but it shocked me the way his parents spoke to him, and how easily he brushed it off his shoulder.

So, looking around today, we witness many different parent-child relationships. Some of us are very lucky to have good encounters with our parents. In Youth in Revolt, a lot of different relationships are displayed, which give us an idea about the different things that people go through every day. Nick unfortunately doesn't have a great relationship with his family, and Vijay has what he thinks is a horrible family, when he doesn't really know how good he has it, compared to Nick. I guess we all don't know how good we have it, until we see something, or read something that opens our eyes to the horror of a child's life!

So, I bid my reader adieu (did I spell that right?) GOOD NIGHT!!!!!! Zzzzz