Childhood In Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging

The transition of a child becoming an adolescent is a very complex time in one's life. You are too old to be playing with toys, but your still to young for adult things such as drinking and partying. Although, for both genders this is a difficult time in their lives, it can be a bit tougher on a female. As a girl starts to grow up, she is expected to look a certain way and if she does not look that ways she is still viewed as a kid. Even when you start to look a certain way, but still act like a child that girl will still be viewed like a kid. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging demonstrate the difficulties it is to transition from a kid to an adolescent. In Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Georgia Nicolson is fourteen years old who undergoes through trials and tribulations any normal fourteen-year-old girl would go through. She is in an awkward stage where she is not a child, nor is she an adult. Due to her age and by

It is the first day of school and Georgia is getting ready but her little sister Libby pushes her, causing Georgia to accidentally shave of her eyebrow. She goes downstairs, but hiding her eyebrow so her parents won't notice what happen. Her parents start to mock Georgia because the night before she went to a costume party dress as a stuff olive. That is when Georgia professes that she no longer wishes to be treated as a child. "Today is the first day of my life as the new Georgia... she is not an 'elf' not a munchkin. She is a mature, sophisticated women called Ms. Georgia Nicolson." Even though Georgia pointed out her wishes to her parents they just can't take her seriously. First of all she still makes childish choices like dressing up as a stuff olive and also because they notice that she shaved off her eyebrows, her father ,Bob, then replies "what's the hurry with growing up so fast? Why don't you just enjoy being