Mask Essay
Jake Pinkney
The Punk, The Druggy, and The Skier
I am a 14 year old teenager who enjoys skiing, hanging out with my friends, and
just having a good time all around. People think that because I like all of
these things I am going to steal, ruin their times, vandalize, do drugs, or just
mess everything possible up. I have chosen to do my project on the way I am
looked at in society because I like people smiling at me, saying hi back to me,
and telling me to have a nice day when I leave their stores or gas stations, I
am a young adult and feel I should be at least mildly treated like one.
The up to no good teenager.
I am the target I am 14 years old every were I go I feel like people are giving
me the look or watching me waiting for me to do something wrong. I feel that
people, don’t expect us to be smart or ever have good intentions every time I
enter a gas station or shop people give me extra attention because of my age I
think that I am a young adult and should be treated like one. What if I was an
adult would people say hi to me when I enter their stores or say have a “nice
day”when I leave them? I wish I could be looked at as the kid that did something
great and not the kid who is going to steal something or break some sort of law.
The punk skier.
I am the target in more than 1 place even places that are built around
teenagers/kids. I am a skier; I like to ski as much as I can. When I am at the
mountain I respect everyone and everything, but yet I am still looked at as a
punk. I have gotten in trouble multiple times for speeding past people on blacks
and seen other people do the same but no whistle was blown. I would just like to
be able to have a good time in the snow with my friends and be able to ski as
fast as I'd like on the advanced runs. When I eat lunch up at the mountain, my
friends and I usually like to go inside but when we do everyone watches and
give us dirty looks as if where in there to cause them trouble or vandalize
things. I try to think what is going through people’s minds when there giving me
glares or looking at me funny, I wonder if they think I'm high or if I have some
sort of thing I'm not supposed to, that’s what automatically comes to my mind
when I think of what he is thinking because that is what some teenagers do, but
not all of us. Teenagers have even put that in my mind. When I think about
teenagers as a stereotype I still think about those kinds of things, like kids
causing trouble or doing drugs.
The mask.
I am the target of multiple causes. I have been socialized as a male teenager
that is never up to any good and wants to fit as many candy bars as he can in
his pocket without paying, to a teen skier who only wants to have fun for
himself and ruin everyone else's ski trip, and a druggy team who only wants to
get high and break things. The puzzle pieces on the mask represent how I am
puzzling my life together as a young person, the pieces off the mask represents
the things I’d like to become or the things I’d like to do or maybe even the
traits or habits I am trying to take in. The goggles on the mask represent me
being a skier, the white skin only represents how I am Caucasian. The Mohawk at
the top of the mask represents how people look at me as a punk.
I don’t judge people for judging me, because when I think of a teenager I think
of kids that do drugs, and vandalize things. It’s just the image we set for each
other. If someone hears or sees something it automatically sets in their minds.
Teenagers can kill the image of us being “bad kids”, only I wish that teenagers
would be willing to change their image, the problem is that some teenagers like
the image they have created for themselves. It’s a problem solved by the people
that created it.
The Punk, The Druggy, and The Skier
I am a 14 year old teenager who enjoys skiing, hanging out with my friends, and
just having a good time all around. People think that because I like all of
these things I am going to steal, ruin their times, vandalize, do drugs, or just
mess everything possible up. I have chosen to do my project on the way I am
looked at in society because I like people smiling at me, saying hi back to me,
and telling me to have a nice day when I leave their stores or gas stations, I
am a young adult and feel I should be at least mildly treated like one.
The up to no good teenager.
I am the target I am 14 years old every were I go I feel like people are giving
me the look or watching me waiting for me to do something wrong. I feel that
people, don’t expect us to be smart or ever have good intentions every time I
enter a gas station or shop people give me extra attention because of my age I
think that I am a young adult and should be treated like one. What if I was an
adult would people say hi to me when I enter their stores or say have a “nice
day”when I leave them? I wish I could be looked at as the kid that did something
great and not the kid who is going to steal something or break some sort of law.
The punk skier.
I am the target in more than 1 place even places that are built around
teenagers/kids. I am a skier; I like to ski as much as I can. When I am at the
mountain I respect everyone and everything, but yet I am still looked at as a
punk. I have gotten in trouble multiple times for speeding past people on blacks
and seen other people do the same but no whistle was blown. I would just like to
be able to have a good time in the snow with my friends and be able to ski as
fast as I'd like on the advanced runs. When I eat lunch up at the mountain, my
friends and I usually like to go inside but when we do everyone watches and
give us dirty looks as if where in there to cause them trouble or vandalize
things. I try to think what is going through people’s minds when there giving me
glares or looking at me funny, I wonder if they think I'm high or if I have some
sort of thing I'm not supposed to, that’s what automatically comes to my mind
when I think of what he is thinking because that is what some teenagers do, but
not all of us. Teenagers have even put that in my mind. When I think about
teenagers as a stereotype I still think about those kinds of things, like kids
causing trouble or doing drugs.
The mask.
I am the target of multiple causes. I have been socialized as a male teenager
that is never up to any good and wants to fit as many candy bars as he can in
his pocket without paying, to a teen skier who only wants to have fun for
himself and ruin everyone else's ski trip, and a druggy team who only wants to
get high and break things. The puzzle pieces on the mask represent how I am
puzzling my life together as a young person, the pieces off the mask represents
the things I’d like to become or the things I’d like to do or maybe even the
traits or habits I am trying to take in. The goggles on the mask represent me
being a skier, the white skin only represents how I am Caucasian. The Mohawk at
the top of the mask represents how people look at me as a punk.
I don’t judge people for judging me, because when I think of a teenager I think
of kids that do drugs, and vandalize things. It’s just the image we set for each
other. If someone hears or sees something it automatically sets in their minds.
Teenagers can kill the image of us being “bad kids”, only I wish that teenagers
would be willing to change their image, the problem is that some teenagers like
the image they have created for themselves. It’s a problem solved by the people
that created it.