Corinne’s Blog

This piece is in the style of the narrator from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is an elaborate limited third person point of view.

Life for an adolescent attending a public high school can be an excruciatingly complex place full of girls with shrill voices, boys with too much testosterone, and teachers with overzealous egos. To a mature adult high school seems a petty thing; however, in the eyes of those young adolescents attending said institution, it is their world, their galaxy, their universe. In a high school setting, with hormones running amok and emotions running high, day to day dramatics are an inevitable part of life, whether a person wishes to be involved or not. Girls bicker over boys, clothes, and whether other girls are admissible for association. Boys boast their brawn, always trying to prove, though more to themselves than to anyone else, which of them is the top dog, and therefore, most deserving of the respect of his peers. It is bizarre to contemplate that these mere four years in the educational system have such a profound effect on the lives of those pupils who frequent it.