An American Childhood

The story "An American Childhood" is about a young girl struggling to make it through her adolescence. Obviously, teenage years are a time of change for young people, and emotions run wild. It is normal for annie to blame her parents for how her life is changing. Annie has lots of anger built up inside and it seems like a self vs. society situation. It is interesting to me that she takes out alot of her frustrations on music. Even though she is basically destroying the instruments, she now has an outlet for her emotions. There seems to be alot of self reflection happening even without the character knowing about it. She starts to figure out and adress her inner anger and isolate it in a healthier manner.