blog 3

Blog entry 3

            Teenage suicide had been a serious problem. I have this believe that there is anything in this world that can make us kill ourselves. I mostly here one person commit suicide but if it is a group, then it must be a problem. By reading “Teenage Wasteland” by Donna Gaines, I understand it is a public concern. By researching by the history and biography of suburban, Gaines explains here that in suburbia where the suicide were commit, teenagers don’t have anything to do after school. They only hang out around the corners which make them think of drug and suicide. They are defeated in their lives; they don’t good school and other activities like sport and other because they belong to poor families. These teenagers feel that their lives don’t mean anything anymore that’s why they kill themselves. If we pay to close look at it, boredom is something that is link to it and makes them stand to teenage wasteland.

Gaines has use research to be able to explain her theory.  She highlights the key questions and explains the data that she has collected. She gave different examples to elaborate her idea. We, as Gaines explains never bother to what they do until they do something that is terrified. Just like after the shouting in Newtown, then they started questioning about how it happens and having security guard on public school. Also they started reviewing gun control.