Question 2

2) Are there any current situation in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situation could be resolved or “fixed”?

The current situation I want to talk about is one of the problem is about teenagers. These days, the teenagers are one problem because of their inadequate behavior, opposite from the teenagers in old days. It is common because the social atmosphere changed a lot and the development of computer and television made the teenagers exposed to violence with violent television programs and movies. They also are exposed to it with violent computer games that they are easily hooked on. Also there are a lot of parents who both go to work during the day, and they do not have many chance to look after their sons and daughters. They do not even know what way their children are going to. They do not expect them to get crooked and spend time with dangerous friends because while they are in work, the teenagers might not be where they should be, and when the parents are present, they pretend they are working hard on their studies or things that appropriate teenagers do. So there are a lot of juvenile delinquencies happening around us, mere of severe.
I think this problem relates to the story I read very much because the increasing of juvenile delinquency is because there are not much guardians that look after their children and teach them in what way they should behave and act. There is not many parents that that realize that the way of their children spending time is wrong, and they don’t correct them. It is a same thing happening to the boys in the book that there was no adult to control them. Teenagers these days, even if there are some laws they are disobeying, need adults as guardians to teach them how to behave.