Original Paragraph:
Sixteen is the key and crucial natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world. When you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you. This is a puzzle, finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future, fighting for them. You do not foresee it.
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After reading this, I began to realize how much different their world was from ours today. Back then, WWII was going on, so 16 year-olds were foreseen as participants for the military. Their lives were basically planned out for them. Now, adults are more interested in the 18 year-olds, for they are going to be able to graduate and go to college at the end of their school year. Now, the first thing that adults ask a junior in High School, is "what are you going to do after you graduate?" A majority of them expect answers with the words "university" and "college" in them. Instead of war, education is now the main consideration of adults towards teens.
2 comments:
I see your point about this passage, and I totally agree. Their life was way different from today, and children are definitely considered adults at a later age!!!!
I also see your point, but then again, though 18 is the age where "adults" are expected to be all registered for colleges and such, a lot of parents don't really care anymore. Many people leave high school with a diploma and no plans for their lives at all, accept getting married and having kids. In my opinion, the expectancy for graduates to actually go to a college, graduate from college, and then be successful, is low. Many teens choose the military because college is much harder, but also because the ones who don't care about it, have nothing better to do.
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