Name Theo Spuler Class Culminating Task: Literary Analysis Essay. PART 1: Essay Prompt Directions: Read the essay prompt. Culminating Task Prompt In this unit you will learn from both fiction and nonfiction texts about experiences that many adolescents have in common. Explain how author Adam Bagdasarian uses at least two literary devices in the short story “Popularity” to show what those experiences are like. Support your response with textual evidence. [W.2] PART 2: Drafting Your Essay Directions: Draft your essay in the space provided. If you completed any essay planning activities in a previous lesson, use them to help you draft your response. We all know that growing up as a teenager is hard. Whether it is the need to belong to …show more content…
They had also played together. So I kind of felt like an outsider. And that hit me pretty hard. Don't feel worried about me, I will fit in eventually. That is how teens can feel they need to belong to a peer group. In adolescents, teens can start to stray away from parents and start turning towards peers. In the article "How The Teen Brain Transforms Relationships" by Daniel Siegal, they talk about how you stray away from your parents as an adolescent, the author writes. That’s why we have adolescence. Nature needs to do something to this child’s brain to make it so that when this child is 50 years old, she or he is not living at home anymore. Nature’s got to do something so that the child will move away from familiarity and toward what’s unfamiliar and new — and toward what’s potentially unsafe. "( pp.5 Siegal). This shows that it is mandatory that you stray away from your caregivers in adolescence, for example if I am little and I play basketball, and when I was five or six I played on a shorter rim. At some point I would have to play on a higher rim to keep playing. In the short story "First Day Fly" the narrator is in a store looking for a new T-shirt for the first day of school. He sees a plastic