us with a work of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and boundless sentimentality.To this may be added a measure of portentousness, as the action takes place on 16 August 1977, which is the night Elvis Presley died and with him the last vestiges of the first great dream of teenage rebellion....
fulfilling a prophecy of Zachariah, “He shall build the Temple of the Lord, shall bear the glory, and sit on the throne and rule, there shall be a priest before the throne, and peaceful counsel will exist between both of them.” (...
This movie is rebellion incarnate. Yelling to anyone within earshot that they need to listen. It also introduced audiences to Jack Nicholson. Alice’s Restaurant Cut from the same cloth asEasy Rider, this is a movie that takes on the Vietnam war. It’s about a kid paralyzed by fear of ...
has become the primary genre of contemporary books. These social, economic and political changes, treated separately were not enough to induce, the development of the novel. Rather it was the presence of circumstances and factors together that inundated the transition of the novel, illuminating its...
Threading the needle of rebellion, Ren challenges the ban to revitalize the spirit of the youth, notably Ariel Moore (Lori Singer), the Reverend's rebellious daughter. This musical drama, peppered with foot-tapping numbers and teenage angst, is a rhythmic dance of defiance against unju...
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Living life in fear only produces more regulations, and regulations repress desire and produce banality, and in the end that produces, inevitably, rebellion and more risk and more secrets and the closets burst open again… Genesisis a sexual fable of the child becoming an adult and the adult ...
It is an extraordinary moment: pain, denial, rebellion, hopelessness. It arrives in many different ways. It used to come with spectacles — but nowadays the babe wears spectacles; sometimes it creeps upon us with a little stiffening of the joints; one does not run upstairs quite as lightly ...
Another from the same year described her as having “something of the eternal teen in her bubbly enthusiasm.” Blume understood herself in similar terms, describing her midlife affair and divorce as a “‘late adolescent’ rebellion,” only after which she finally “started to grow up.”...
The Hunger Gamesby Suzanne Collins (2008) – Katniss Everdeen matures through her experiences in the brutal Hunger Games, learning about sacrifice, survival, the brutality of power, and the nuances of rebellion and conformity. James and the Giant Peachby Roald Dahl (1961) – James undergoes a ...