Essay Outline

My Essay is going to deal with juvenile delinquency and the causes of teenagers to be rebels. I want to discuss what it meant for a teen to be "delinquent" decades ago and up until now. I would like to discuss the different decades to show the difference in what was considered delinquent in say the 1970's up until now, the 21st century. I was going to look at the different books and how the authors portray juvenile delinquency and what causes their characters to be rebellious. I would start the essay talking about delinquency and what it means to be delinquent or being a rebel in teenagers. Then I would use the different books as examples of the time periods and how they were portraying adolescent delinquency in each of the ones that we are reading. So far, Charlotte Temple, Huck Finn, and Betsey Brown are showing different ways teens act out and what society or families considered rebellious behavior. For my essay I would most likely start with the earliest time period I chose and then lastly I would discuss the 21st century. I will also reflect on my own adolescence and look at the ways I would act rebellious and compare it to other teens of my age and in the past. I would also compare my adolescence to the characters in the books that we have read.