Different social
groups are represented with the different ages and the different levels of
maturity shown, ages represents the different ways problems are dealt with and
maturity is shown with the different level of up bringing expressing the
maturity and ways that traumatic experiences are dealt with.
Regarding age, the
young middle school aged children show an extended level of maturity relative
to the older teenagers with the expression of not focusing on the real issue at
hand this therefore shows a controversy to popular belief that the older and more
experienced aged teenagers will have a stronger maturity level than the younger
individuals. This can be backed up with the idea that growing up adds levels of
maturity with experience levels and the different methods of growing up which
combine to make a stronger minded person is not shown here. The likes of mike
and his group show a level of stress but keeping steady minded to try and
resolve the issue no matter the extent of the issue. This is contrasted with
the older teenagers closely related such as Nancy who is more involved with her
boyfriend Steve and less bothered about a close family friend missing which in
essence should be the highest valued issue at hand, instead it is less
regarded.
Maturity with
upbringing expresses the poor relative to the rich as a more mature social
group, expressing how a higher class upbringing can express immaturity and a
level of childish maybe due to the reliant on the older generation due to
having more time than the lower class working families. This can be exampled
with the byers family relative to Nancy's family. Wills brother shows a better
example of maturity with comforting the mother along with showing practical
methods of resolving the issue while Nancy doesn’t. Although it is more
personal as a brother no expression of maturity and more of a claim to
popularity is shown with Nancy over wills brother. This therefore shows how an
upbringing of class can negatively effect the maturity and stability levels of
teenagers.
Therefore social
groups are therefore represented majority with the children but this is
expressed and originates from the children's upbringing. This can be the
different class of which they are upbrought in, or a broken family such as the
byers being split up. This is contradicted with Nancy's family origin and
therefore shows the audience how the differences are examples of more than just
gender and lifestyle.
