Blog 20 - Quote Integration

We did an exercise in class where we learned to integrate quotes into paragraphs, but in a scholarly way, aka not letting the quote introduce or end a paragraph. My paper is largely about how Buffy is representative of adolesence and the lives of teens, and their relationships with their parents. This was a paragraph with one of my quotes: In the episode called Inca Mummy Girl Buffy decides not to go to the high school dance that everyone is going to. This often happens in high school, and usually teens do not tell their parents why they don’t want to attend a dance. They muddle it up and spend the night sulking in their room, or they’re in a rebellious stage where high school dances seem lame. In Buffy’s case she is skipping out on the dance because she has more important slaying matters to deal with, yet another metaphor to the teenager parent disconnect. Parents don’t always understand why their children have to fall into a label of jock, punk, prom queen or such. Teens see it as important, and its true that “what happens in those years does matter almost as much as it seems to at the time.” Teens realize it matters at the time and parents dismiss it as something teens will grow out of. Buffy portrays this living of the label very well with her character. She is labeled as an pretty outcast and that's what she is, someone who is noticed but avoided, and she'll continue to be affected by her label, she continues to be a slayer.