Behind Grandma's House Analysis

The Vicissitudes Life of a Teenager In both stories, “A&P” and “Behind Grandmas House” deliver a strong message towards teenagers. It has keen interpretations of the daily routines within the influence of adolescence. The story is very confusing but there’s a comparison within both stories. Teenagers naturally test reason. In John Updike 's “A&P” and in Gary Soto 's “Behind Grandmas House” the authors express the fragility of adolescence and their natural resistance to reason. First of all, the perception of teenagers are blinded by their emotions. So in the A&P story, Sammy the cashier when he saw the girls, was amazed. He wanted to talk to them and to date one of the girls, especially the one in the middle, who he called "queenie." When the manager came and talked to them very harshly, and he told them to be decent at the store. Sammy became mad and he fought with the manger for them, …show more content…
When the kid become a teenager, his/her hormones are not going to be balanced. They think that they know everything. however, in reality they don’t know anything. Most scientists call the teenager period a very hard period for the parents and for the kids themselves, because they are changing. At the adolescence the kid is expressing new things and those new things are going to effect on the rest of their lives. The parents should be there helping their children to pass this period with good experience. In conclusion, Gary Soto’s story “Behind Grandma’s House,” he tells about a kid who wants to become a bad person. This kid thought by becoming a bad person, the people would have interested in him and he would be famous. He didn’t know that by becoming a bad person, people would disrespect him and they wouldn 't talk to him. He would be rejected by the society, so that his grandma punched him in the face to bring him to the real world. She punched him, because she loves him and she knows the reality of