Teen pregnancy is defined as, “pregnancy by a female, age 13 to 19, which is understood to occur in a girl who hasn’t completed her core education—secondary school—has few or no marketable skills, is financially dependent upon her parents and/or continues to live at home and is mentally immature” (Segen’s Medical Dictionary). And while California ranked 30 out of 51 [states]- in 2011 (HHS), making it not as much of a concern, it is still an issue regarded in today’s society. “In the United States, nearly 72 out of 1,000 teenage girls ages 15 to 19 become pregnant each year, according to statistics from the Guttmacher Institute” (All Psychology Careers). “The national teen pregnancy rate has declined almost continuously over the last two decades” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Teen pregnancy, though not as common as it once was, is still an issue in some high schools. In 2010, an estimated 60% of teen pregnancies ended in live births, while 30% resulted in abortion (HHS).
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, which is constantly described as a coming of age story, covers an array of topics that high school teenagers
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“Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas or events interact and develop over the course of the text”.
I feel that these objectives relate to Chbosky’s book; I had a bit of difficulty getting through the book despite its lack of density. There are many many ideas compiled into this one novel and student will have to keep track of each of these ideas, individually and as a whole, to understand why the main character is who he