TEENAGERS IN TODAY’S SOCIETY. How society and the media perceive teenagers does not necessarily represent reality. Not all texts are designed to tell the real story but to cater for the dreams of a target audience. Whether fiction or non-fiction, teenagers are similarly presented as rebellious uncontrollable and unstable. Some texts do show teenagers as heroic in themselves, whether achieving great feats or just surviving the trials of ordinary life. Unfortunately these texts are …showed first 75 words of 1067 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1067 total…the way teenagers think, they are few and far between. I don’t think that the perception and representation of teenagers is going to change in the future we will always just be the go between childhood and adulthood. TEXTS USED Cannon Productions, 1994-1999. Heartbreak High. Sydney. Marchetta, M. 1992. Looking for Alibrandi. Penguin, Sydney. Martin,J & Gannon,E. 2000. Lionheart. Allen & Unwin, Sydney Twentieth Century Fox, 1996. Stealing Beauty. Los Angeles Warner Brothers 1998-2001. Dawsons Creek. Wilmington