7. Self-realization

Few days ago an interesting short story was presented in class called 'A man who was almost a man'. The author criticized in his story a boy, who was seventeen and had tried to prove himself to society with buying a gun. Unfortunately gun has been symbolized for 'real man' for years. Actually seeing only one cause don't help under today's conditions. Forinstance media is as guilty as adolescence, who is trying to prove themselves at every turn. Especially in our country media may sometimes publish -so called- reflecting social live series, which may lead adolescences to have wrong attitude towards their surroundings, such as being rebellious or having gun in contrast to their age to prove that they also have rights to talk or showing evidence of commitment to society with a symbol or to prove that they are not invisible. In this situation media is the one who actually help them by showing gun carrying-macho behaving guys. Being a men obsession isn't a new thing, the period betweed manhood and adolescence is probably the tough period for boys not because they are more vulnerable than girls it is because that, media create pressure on them by showing -so called- man symbols.