"We Teenagers feel the older generation left us a poor world".
Eddie Ho
10 December 2002, ENG3U1-14
Summary and response: “We Teenagers feel the older generation left us a poor world”
“History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.” These were wise words made by U.S. lawyer Clarence Darrow. This is true when we take a look back at ourselves in time and see our mistakes repeated, day after day, year after year. Is this just a coincidence or is it a human nature that we never learn from our past mistakes and never face the problems?
The article titled “We teenagers feel the older generation left us a poor world” was written in 1985 by Kitty R, a 17 year old teenager who expresses her views of the world around her. She addresses the issues and problems she experiences back then. These problems include problems students face where they do not have jobs after school, and are faced with loans and debts. She says that ‘the good old days’ are gone as teenagers are more likely to turn to drugs, alcohol, and other forms of relief as peer pressure increases. Societies are also acting in an inhumane way as countries are spending money on luxuries such as weapons, instead of aiding the poor. Destruction of the world as a result of nuclear war and destruction of plants, lakes, trees, humans and animals, are all possibilities faced in the world at her time. Kitty R. expresses no hope for the future and that she will live it day by day.
