In Youth In Revolt it shows another side of parents and how bad they can really be. How mothers can act as if they had no children at all and were 17 again, And how step fathers can be so violent and hateful towards their step children. Not only is nick's family completely dysfunctional but you can also see the exact opposite which is how Nick's best friend Vijay's parents act, they are extremely strict and caring with their kids. Un this book I believe that the only reason their parents act the way they do is probably because of how their kids act. Have you ever went against what your parents want ? try breaking the law, stealing cars, catching houses on fire, being the reason for a persons death, sending an innocent kid to jail, breaking into your own house and destroying it.
I believe that somewhat Nick had a part in his family being torn apart completely. He disregarded almost everything his mother had told him and did everything he could have possibly done to make his mom miserable. Nicks mom isn't the best mom someone can have considering the fact she slept with a different man every night, and treated her son as if he was garbage, but there were some times when she actually tried to be a good parent to him and tried to be nice.
Another idea that I have when reading this book was that relationships have a huge impact on how peoples personalities are or how they change. In this beginning when I first started Youth In Revolt I thought how innocent and nice Nick was but then it seemed as if the second that Nick had met Sheeni his entire personality changed to what she wanted him to be and how she wanted him to act. In the book Sheeni was talking to Nick over the phone and told him that he needs to be more audacious and take more risks in his life, and he took this to an extreme. I don't think its even possible to keep track of how many laws that Nick has broken just to get the attention and to keep his girl friend. It's insane how he goes completely out of his way for her and she's just like all over everyone else, and I don't think that Nick and Sheeni should be together, Their bad for each other.
Another topic that came up in almost everything that happened in this amazing book was peer pressure. The mom after discovering she was pregnant with her dead ex boyfriends baby was pressured into marrying the jerk jerry the cop. Nick was pressured to go to the extremes for his snobby girlfriend Sheeni. What it most importantly showed in this book was that when you give into the peer pressure and the pressure people put on you to fill their needs the outcome of giving into that peer pressure is always bad. showing from everyone's lives in this book slowly falling apart.
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