1. 1) Youth are often represented in accordance with popular notions of
adolesence
a) ‘A period of ‘storm and stress’ characterised by intergenerational
conflicts, mood swings and an enthusiam for risky behaviour’
G. Stanley Hall (1906)
Billy gets very stressed when one of the girls he is dating asks him for
the ring he took to the jewellers, she keeps shouting at him and he
imagines and wishes he could shoot her with a gun to stop her talking.
This shows the risky behaviour and mood swing towards the girl.
b) ‘Adolescene is conflict between identity and ‘role confusion’. Resolving this
conflict involes finding a settled role in life. If unsuccessful this results in
‘maladaption’ in the form of fanaticism or the rejection of adult responsibility’.
Erik Erikson (1906)
He is a clark in the funreal store however he always day dreams to be in the
army and be upper class and also wanting to be an writer.
c)Adolescene is a critical period of identity formation in which individuals over
uncertainty, become more self-aware of their strengths and weaknesses.
Erik Erickson (1968)
At the end when Liz is on the train he realises he that being out of the ordinary
and going to London is not for him so he decides to carry on with his normal life
showing that his basic life is his strength
d) Continuing ‘confusion’ about one’s identity is a mark of incomplete
development and may result in deviant or antisocial behaviour.
Erik Erikson (1968)
He is ment to be acting like an adult and is engaged how ever hes asked 3 girls
and makes him do many things against the normal like imagine he is shooting
one of the girls.
e) Adolescene is primarily a state of transition, a matter of becoming rather than
being.
He has a very mature adult life with a job and wearing suits however when it
comes to his personality he is just like a child still.
2. Youth are often ‘demonised’ the mass media
a) ‘We found some news converage where teen boys were described in
glowing terms – ‘model student’, ‘angel’, ‘altar boy’ or ‘every mothers
perfect son’, but sadly these were reserved for teenage boys who met a
violent and untimely death.’
‘Hoodies or Altar Boys’

2. His father thinks he should leave and do what he wants to do but his mother
says he should stay home and let his mother do everything. This is slightly to
separate opions
b) ‘the true horrors we fear day to day are not supernatural bogeymen or
monsters created by scientists. They’re our own youth
Daily mail
The adults see as Billy as something different and want him to be an adult
but can fear him
c) ‘I was reminded of something that the late Alexander Walker, film critic of
the London Evening Standard, once wrote about Kubrick’s Clockwork
Orange: we hate and fear our childern’.
Peter Bradshaw – Guardian
Billys parents hate what he chooses and when he disobeys them and
wants him to fit the adult life.
3. Youth are represtented as being let down by adults
a) ‘Parents aren’t always around to help socialize their children – or even
just to show them affection. Compared to other cultures, British kids are
less intergrated into the adult world and spend more time with peers.
Britains Mean Streets, Time Magazine
This applys to Billy as he only argues with his family and talks to his
friends about what he wants to do.
b)”young people want to make healthy and informed decisions…but until
now, too many have been let down by education system”.
Katrina Mather, 16, Member of Youth Parliament
He was sent to grammer school and was always told to be greatful for
what you have however I think he wishes he had better as he wants to be
a writer.
4.Youth are represented as part of a subculture
a) ‘Youth reappropriate artefact which creates group idenity and promotes
mutual recognition by members.’
I find Billy to be his own person in his own world and doesn’t comply to
other genres or groups.
5. Alienation – youth are represented as being estranged from parts of
society

3. a) “the youth are prohibited from speaking as moral and political agents,
youth become an empty category inhabited by the desires, fantasies
and interest of the adult world”
Jonathan Epstein
He wants to be an adult in some ways by wanting to marry some one
and work in London as a writer however he isn’t sure what girl he
wants and also in a dream state with the wide imagination he has.
b)’Adolescene is a growth period conducive to alienation due the
‘betwixt & between’ nature of the this partiularpostion in lifecourse’
Calabrese
Hes in a limbo, not having a place or proper role with not being a child
or an adult.
6. Youth are product of the society they were born into, and often
embody the faults and fears of adult society.
He has a fear of being an different to what hes got. He don’t want to
move out but at the same time wants to move to London to be a
writer, hes slightly confussed.