In life today, the young receive help from a variety of sources, including adults, but the same cannot be said for the young in the novel All Good Children. First of all, the adults in New Middletown decide to vaccinate the young instead of helping the young resolve their problems. They also insult the young people, and see them as a problem.Furthermore, the adults don’t respect the young’s needs or wants and expect the young to conform to their needs and wants.. For these reasons, the adults in the novel do not support the young people as they deal with the challenges in their life.
In the novel, the adults decide to vaccinate the children of New Middletown, instead of helping them fix their issues.. These issues could have easily been …show more content…
They make the young conform to their own needs. The young whose averages fall below 70 are forced to go to trade school. This could cause for a child to not get their desired career path, as they may have been forced to go to trade school, because they aren’t performing as well as others in school(p87). This could have a negative impact on the young, and could lead to a variety of other problems, including depression, or other mental health issues. Furthermore, the adults restrict the young from doing what they enjoy. Saffron was a girl who enjoyed playing football, but because she was a girl, she was not allowed to participate during her former teams football game(p105-106). The adults also ignored the needs of the students. While administering the vaccines, the adults failed to check, or ignored protocols to see if the young needed more time prior to receiving the vaccine. This would be necessary if they were on other medications, or in a condition which would not allow for them to receive the vaccine (p121-122). This impacts the health and lives of many students, including Tyler Wilkins, who died from the vaccine(p170). If the young do not have their wants or needs, it will be harder for them to deal with the challenges in their
In the novel, the adults decide to vaccinate the children of New Middletown, instead of helping them fix their issues.. These issues could have easily been …show more content…
They make the young conform to their own needs. The young whose averages fall below 70 are forced to go to trade school. This could cause for a child to not get their desired career path, as they may have been forced to go to trade school, because they aren’t performing as well as others in school(p87). This could have a negative impact on the young, and could lead to a variety of other problems, including depression, or other mental health issues. Furthermore, the adults restrict the young from doing what they enjoy. Saffron was a girl who enjoyed playing football, but because she was a girl, she was not allowed to participate during her former teams football game(p105-106). The adults also ignored the needs of the students. While administering the vaccines, the adults failed to check, or ignored protocols to see if the young needed more time prior to receiving the vaccine. This would be necessary if they were on other medications, or in a condition which would not allow for them to receive the vaccine (p121-122). This impacts the health and lives of many students, including Tyler Wilkins, who died from the vaccine(p170). If the young do not have their wants or needs, it will be harder for them to deal with the challenges in their