The first and the last letter From Clarrise to Montag

             Dear Montag

      I am writing to you because I feel lonelier than I ever felt before. Usually I was watching nature, how flowers grow how they smell, I usually observed people and analysed their behavior but now I don’t know why I feel there will not be many occasions to tell you about me. That’s why I want to show you other aspects of my life.

      Our last few meetings were really great.I don’t remember many people which wanted to spend time with me besides my family. You know I don’t have friends because nobody wants to understand me. But you, you are different. When I first saw you I was afraid of you. Picture of a fireman in my mind was really scary but you changed it. You seem like you want to know me, know why I’m different, why I don’t want to be like everybody.
      In my family, we talk very often. I remember your face when you saw my house and all those people sitting-talking and living! I think you and your wife don’t do it. She is just watching TV all day and parlour is her ‘family’ right? Oh, poor Montag I really have to tell you so many things. I am hiding really important information from you. I… I… I have read many books Montag and I can help you. I want to talk with you about them. My uncle’s grandfather used to have many books in his house but I think you know what happened to them. For most of my life I thought that there are no books left in my family but I was wrong. Few years ago I wanted to hide under my uncle’s bad – you know – just for fun. In that moment I felt something hard. I took it and went to my room. It was a book. At the same time I was curious and scared but I have read it. I also read all of the others I found under the bed. It is really irresponsible that I’m telling you this through the letter but I just have to. I feel that someone is trying to kill me . Maybe because I’m different maybe because they are afraid I will ruin their 'perfect' and 'happy' system. I want you to feel Montag! I want you to live! Don’t be afraid of listening to your heart. It will always tell you the truth.

      I hope we will meet again before I will ‘leave with family’ or die in an ‘accident’. Never doubt in your new way of thinking It is good. I believe in you Montag – you can bring back the world of feelings and thinking.

                                                           Look forward to see you soon

                                                                               Clarrise

A vision of students today - Compare with yourself

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• My avarge class is 115        
• 18% of my teachers know my name
• I've completed 49% of readings assigned to me      
• Only 26% relevant to my life                                
• I buy hundred dollars textbooks that I never         
• My neighbour paid for class but never comes
• I will read 8books this year, 2300web pages,1281FaceBook Profiles
•  I will write 42pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of email
• I get 7hours of sleep each night
• I spend 1,5 h watching TV each night
• I spend 3.5 h on line every day
• I listen to music 2.5h a day
• I spend 2h on my cell phone
• I spend 3hours in class
• 2h eating
• I spend 2h in work every day
• 3hours of studying
• I'm a multi-tasker ( I have to be)
• I will be $20.000 in debt after graduation
• I'm one of the lucky ones
• Over 1bilion people make less than 1$ every day
• This laptop cost more than some people in the world make in a whole year
• When I graduate I will probably have a job that doesn't exist now
• I facebook most of my classes
• I bring my laptop to class but I'm not working on class stuff
  
  
   My life
  
• My avarge class is 12
• 90%of my teachers know my name
• I don't want to talk about it :)
• I don't know it yet
• I don't have to buy textbooks anymore (but I used to and I also used to open them)
• Usually everybody are in my classes
• I will read more books and I have no idea how much web pages and facebook profiles.
• I don't know how many pages I have write this semester but I think the number is quite similar
• I also get 7hours of sleep each night
• I spend 0 - 1 h watching TV every day
• I spend 4-8 hours on line every day
• I listen to music 2-4 hours a day
• I spend 0 - 5 min on my cell phone everyday
• I spend65min in class 3-5 times a day
• 1- 1,5hour eating
• I don't have a job but I spend about 1hour every day on housework's.
• 2-3hours of studying
• I'm a multi-tasker ( I don't have to be :) )
• I don't I will be in debt after graduation
• I didn't really know in what contexts she is saying that but I think sometimes I'm also a 'lucky one'
• I'm not on facebook aat class time
• I brig my laptop and I'm workind on class stuff :)

(lotto) Filling this out won't help me het there or deal with all these problems (in table) . I did not create this problems but they are my problems.
"Some have suggested that technology can save us….."

In a world where everything is quickly packaged and pre-packaged by the media, how can teens rebel?

Rebel. What does it mean? When you look into the dictionary you'll see a definition:
1.a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
2.a person who resists any authority, control, or tradition.

For me rebel means doing something againsts rules. In my age it means mainly against parents or rules in school. Usually coming back home later than I should or not doing my homework. Some people rebel by looking different. They are trying to stand out and be seen by society.
So can we really rebel? Even when I'll start wearing totally another clothes than I used to and start looking different - how can I know if it isn't already in some magazine recognised as a new trend? Or what is worse it have already been a trend and now it's out of date? In this times everything we do is not original. It’s hard to find something that someone didn't already do. But coming back to main question - How can teens rebel? I think that even if our way of rebel is not original it can still be rebel if we break our rules.

What is cool?

First thing I did was to ask my friends what cool mean. They usually were saying : " You don't know? Super, excellent, great "

And what is cool?
"Fashion, music, way you look, when you are different or when you follow the trends"

And why this is cool?
"Ehm….. Whyy???? I don't know… why you are asking?"

So I think saying what is cool is not so hard. We just don’t know why is it cool.
'Cool' is changing really often. Everytime when something stars to be cool , everyone starts to follow it . Than this thing is no longer cool so something else is now cool and so on. Finding it is not an easy challenge. Every firm which sell things to teens , keep looking for meaning of this word. 'Cool 'will always change. No matter what we can’t stop it. As long as time goes cool will be changing.