Learning in the Age of the Trigger Warning
11 years ago
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Red
I think that the girls who wrote about their lives were very brave. Even knowing that their mom or friends or other people they may offend or would rather not having read their life story was going to be reading this they still offered their stories, and I think that was really cool. I believe that they offered up their stories because they knew that other girls felt the same way, so they could help them out or because they wanted those certain people to know about their problems so that maybe they would get involved more in their life. Most times when a person rants, or complains about their life people say they are trying to get attention, and I think this may be true of the girls who gave up their stories. A lot of the stories were on addictions, eating disorders or more generally something that was giving them trouble and I think it was a calling for help. It is really neat reading about these stories from real people, because we all know these issues are out there but teens never come forward with their problems. It was also kind of cool to be able to relate to some of these stories from my adolescence or what I see going on now. This was a really good idea for a book.I think it could help teens all over the place struggling with the same problems.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I completely agree. These girls were so brave in what they did. I think more books like this need to exist, girls need to know that there are other girls who have the same struggles as them. It was also really nice to read something modern and that we as girls could relate too. I wrote about the teenage suicide post in the book, the one where the girl goes to Utah. I think that story could help a lot of girls, teenage suicide is a big deal and when people talk about they know they are not alone. I'm glad you enjoyed this book as much as I did.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you Erica the girls were so brave to have their humilations, regrets and obsessions out there for anyone to read. I think that this book will be in my collection for awhile especially because I want to be a teacher and maybe this book will be a helpful outlet for me to refer to understand what the adolescent girls are going through in my class when I get up there in age and forget what it was like to be an adolescent with problems.
ReplyDelete