Blog 22 - Thesis exercise

Today in class we worked on our thesis, how to write it and perfect it and support it. A thesis is an argument, not just a statement, so we worked on making sure our theses were arguments and not just statements or observations, that our theses were arguable. We also learned how to support it with information, from the show and real world. The thesis I wrote is: The show Buffy the Vampire shows the metaphor of the relationship between teens and their parents. Buffy the Vampire is an average teenager, she goes to highschool, wants to have friends and be liked, and hides things from her mother. For most teens, their escapades to frat houses and house parties are these secrets, on the other hand, Buffy's big secret is that she is a vampire slayer. This is her secret vs. the typical high schooler's secrets. Buffy's relationship with her parents is strained, they cannot connect to her as well as they think they should be able too, they are lied to by her, they feel distant; these are the typical charecteristics of a teen-parent relationship. Typical teens have all of these problems, they're just not all vampire slayers though. For example one night Buffy skips the high school dance and her mother is sad about it, and probabbly cannot understand why she does this. This is similar to the real life situation of rebellious highschoolers who skip their dances. Or, when her father drops her off back at home and shows that he compensated for his inability to connect to her by buying her lots of material things. These and many other reasons are why the parent/teen relationship is like Buffy and her parents relationship.