It’s a regular belief that teenagers are prone to taking dangerous risks. Yet these senseless risks teens are taking may be due to the way teenagers brains are wired. These dangerous choices are the results from the brain attempting to learn and become more flexible. According to the Time Magazine article “Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk” teens take dangerous risks when the dangers involved are unknown to them. However, as a human with a teenage brain, I disagree. Teenagers are aware of the consequences and still choose to take risks due to inexperience. While reading this article I made connections to both myself and the novel, Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer that illustrate how teenagers are aware of the consequences of the risks they take.
“Danger has always held a certain allure”. (Krakauer, pg. 124). This is partly why risks appeal to teenagers so immensely. While teens are aware of the possible outcomes and their …show more content…
They haven’t lived through or experienced any of the dangers of these risks, so they assume nothing dangerous will occur. For example, driving in a car without a seatbelt. Personally, I’ve done this multiple times while driving with my friends. I know the consequences that these actions can create. I know that the possible outcome could be fatal if I were to crash, however even with that knowledge I’ve still chosen to leave the seatbelt off. I’ve realized that I do this because I truly don’t believe anything outrageous would happen. I know it’s possible, but I’m convinced that the chances of anything dangerous happening are so slim because I’ve never come close to a dangerous experience resulting from not using a seatbelt. Chris McCandless’s decision to leave everything behind and live off the land is another example. In the novel Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, he tells the story of Chris McCandless and his last years traveling through the wilderness with just a backpack and the clothes on his back. Many people
“Danger has always held a certain allure”. (Krakauer, pg. 124). This is partly why risks appeal to teenagers so immensely. While teens are aware of the possible outcomes and their …show more content…
They haven’t lived through or experienced any of the dangers of these risks, so they assume nothing dangerous will occur. For example, driving in a car without a seatbelt. Personally, I’ve done this multiple times while driving with my friends. I know the consequences that these actions can create. I know that the possible outcome could be fatal if I were to crash, however even with that knowledge I’ve still chosen to leave the seatbelt off. I’ve realized that I do this because I truly don’t believe anything outrageous would happen. I know it’s possible, but I’m convinced that the chances of anything dangerous happening are so slim because I’ve never come close to a dangerous experience resulting from not using a seatbelt. Chris McCandless’s decision to leave everything behind and live off the land is another example. In the novel Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, he tells the story of Chris McCandless and his last years traveling through the wilderness with just a backpack and the clothes on his back. Many people