HW 25 additional thoughts

Some of the trends that I noticed throughout the stories I read were fairly typical and somewhat expected. However many people cofronted these aspects in very different ways. For starters in every story I read cool and popularity are in the same catagory. Basically if you are popular you are cool and visa versa. Also I think that attention played a great role in defining cool. The main characters in all of the stories are constantly getting attention and putting themselves into situations where people will give them the attention they seem to desire even if the deny they want it. I think attention plays such a big role in the story because it plays such a big role in our lives. High school is home to some of the most conceeded people you will ever meet; I mean it's not their fault but thats just how it goes. Popularity, cool, fresh whatever you want to call it if knowbody gives you the time of day then they will never know that your cool, therefore we need this attention to express our coolness and connect with the people around us.
Even though mmany of the characters in these short stories cary many of the negative aspects of teenage life, none of them seem to be particularly mean or bad people. I think that we all have somewhat of a desire for the people around us to be nice caring compassionate people even if we don't project that in our own lives. I think that it speaks somewhat highly of the people in our school that they have the desire to have compasionate caring people instead of controling ego maniacs. Also groups seem to be a recouring thing throughout the story. All of the cool people in these stories seem to have a group of followers who basically work at the cooler persons behest. In conclusion it seems that all of these stories have a recouring message that is not said upfront. People want loyalty appreatiation and recognition. However these catagories seem pretty hard to fill and thats why most of the recognizable popular kids don't fill such rolls.