Southern Cross-Article Analysis

Youths constantly put themselves in dangerous or difficult situations because they are not able to consider the consequences of their actions. One text that supports this is the newspaper headline “Three teenagers are on the run after stabbing a woman at Southern Cross”. Specific word choices in this headline make the teenagers appear like the criminals of the story. Although this is quite possible, no information is provided about the woman, whether the stabbing was self defence or whether they were provoked. From the headline, the audience is lead to believe that the stabbing occurred simply because the teenagers felt like stabbing someone and didn’t think before they acted. Acland’s theory can be applied to this news story as it supports the …show more content…
They haven’t had the chance to do anything outside of school and sometimes a part-time job. The only people they have to influence them are teenagers themselves or authority figures and often, both types of people can be ruthless when it comes to other people. The lyrics to the chorus, as shown in the chorus, shows that even though the events that took place was not necessarily a nice thing to do, which supports Acland’s ideology of protection theory and Hebidge’s theory as well as the media’s representation of youths as ruthless, she regretted that moment throughout the rest of her schooling, showing that teenagers can feel empathy, even though they may feel it differently to adults. She says that she was caught in the crowd. Now that she’s an adult, she has had time to fully process the events that have happened in a fully developed brain, and she knows that if she was put in that situation again, she would be ‘someone you could call friend’. The final text is labelled as ‘teen-age mouse’. It depicts a mouse on a trap, thinking ‘I can totally get away with this!’. This reflects the fact that teenagers find it difficult to consider the consequences of their