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On Teenagers and Tattoos
I. Introduction
A. An allusion to the novel, Moby Dick, in a form of an epigraph.
B. Tattoos have been a common feature of our urban youth that initiated disputes between adolescents and their parents. Parents view tattoos as rebellious act against their authority, whereas youth consider tattoos as personal and beautifying statements. Moreover, there are psychological explanations behind the perception of teenagers on tattoos.
C. According to Grumet, examining the significance of tattoos can resolve the differences in adolescents and become a new method of understanding them.
D. Thesis Statement In spite of the solution that tattoos offer to an adolescent’s conflict of identity consolidation, it is the irreversible and permanence nature …show more content…
Tattoos serve as the culmination of the long process of imagining, fantasy, and planning.
4. Anecdote: A 13-year-old boy who has a deltoid tattoo and planning to get a tattoo that represents his dad’s birth and death.
C. Tattoos serve as the adolescent’s quest on permanence
1. Unlike transient relationships, tattoos offer permanence and stability that even if everything else changes, tattoos remain.
2. Anecdote: A father who tattooed the smile of his daughter on his chest
3. Adolescents commit so easily to tattoos that the things they value will not be important in the future.
4. Tattoos allege commitments to other larger groups other than adolescents themselves and can also attest their powerful experiences like adolescence wherein they both experience exhilaration and painful experiences.
III. Conclusion
A. Restatement of Thesis Statement
According to Brain, bodily decorations like tattoos are the adolescents’ method of figuration rather than disfiguration wherein they construct and transform their bodies into something more personalized. (Brain, 1979)
B. Concluding Statement
Bodily decorations should be considered as a self-constructive effort and not a form of destructive
On Teenagers and Tattoos
I. Introduction
A. An allusion to the novel, Moby Dick, in a form of an epigraph.
B. Tattoos have been a common feature of our urban youth that initiated disputes between adolescents and their parents. Parents view tattoos as rebellious act against their authority, whereas youth consider tattoos as personal and beautifying statements. Moreover, there are psychological explanations behind the perception of teenagers on tattoos.
C. According to Grumet, examining the significance of tattoos can resolve the differences in adolescents and become a new method of understanding them.
D. Thesis Statement In spite of the solution that tattoos offer to an adolescent’s conflict of identity consolidation, it is the irreversible and permanence nature …show more content…
Tattoos serve as the culmination of the long process of imagining, fantasy, and planning.
4. Anecdote: A 13-year-old boy who has a deltoid tattoo and planning to get a tattoo that represents his dad’s birth and death.
C. Tattoos serve as the adolescent’s quest on permanence
1. Unlike transient relationships, tattoos offer permanence and stability that even if everything else changes, tattoos remain.
2. Anecdote: A father who tattooed the smile of his daughter on his chest
3. Adolescents commit so easily to tattoos that the things they value will not be important in the future.
4. Tattoos allege commitments to other larger groups other than adolescents themselves and can also attest their powerful experiences like adolescence wherein they both experience exhilaration and painful experiences.
III. Conclusion
A. Restatement of Thesis Statement
According to Brain, bodily decorations like tattoos are the adolescents’ method of figuration rather than disfiguration wherein they construct and transform their bodies into something more personalized. (Brain, 1979)
B. Concluding Statement
Bodily decorations should be considered as a self-constructive effort and not a form of destructive