By Philip Tumsuden

Showing how teens

during the 1950’s

lost their innocence

Identity o

f

1950’s

Teenager’s

• Girl: skirts,

most

popular

skirt was

poodle

skirt,

blouses,

and jeans,

dog collars,

and

smoked

• Guys: Grew

hair out,

leather

jackets,

drove

around in

automobiles,

and smoked

Hold

en’s

Child

hood

• Checkers

with Jane

• Crush on

Jane

• Asks a lot

of questions

• Curious

• Allies glove

• Always

messing

around

Hold

en’s

Adulth

ood

• Smokes

• Drinks

• Curses

• Sexually

interested

in women

• New York

• Lier

• Ducks in

the lake

• Represents

his move

from

childhood

to adulthood

Motif th

at d

epicts

Hold

en's tra

nsfo

rmatio

n

from

child

hood to

adulth

ood

Hold

en’s lo

ss of

innoce

nce

and

atte

mpt to

adulth

ood

• Sex

• Drinks

• Curses

• Smokes

• Carrousel

with

Phoebe

• Phoebe

took him

• He took

Phoebe

1950’s

teenagers lo

ss

of in

noce

nce

• Rock and

Roll

• Elvis Presley

• James Dean

• Automobiles

• Dating

• Dancing

• Sex and

drugs

Perso

nal vie

w o

f one’s

identity a

nd C

hild

hood

to A

dulth

ood

• What you

do can’t

make you

• Personality

• Job

• Not

Immature

• Take

Responsibilit

y