Conflict: Moving for Teens

  Moving



Moving can be hard!



The conflict that affects teens in urban youth culture mostly is moving. My experience of moving was hard knowing, it was just going to a different school I thought meeting new people was going to be a terrible thing. But, it’s helping me with knowing how to view people in a sense of how people act. I know the sadness of leaving old friends behind but, I am doing better than most of my friends. In my independent reading novel, moving is the big issue so far. Hakeem which is a main character in the book called, Blood Is Thicker by Paul Langan and D.M. Blackwell, is dealing with moving from southern California to Detroit and also leaving his girlfriend and all great friends behind. He has to deal with his cousin that is more muscular than Hakeem. Besides moving and his friend, Hakeem has to deal with his dad being weak because of cancer, so he has to do jobs, and help around the house knowing his dad can’t. Also, he has to share a bed room with his mean cousin. Then after the second day living in Detroit, Hakeem started getting homesick and wished he was with his friends in California. Moving can be a big conflict in urban youth culture.

            If you find yourself in this problem, that you’re moving, then talk to your best friend about how you feel. Also, give out your information to your friends that you want to keep in touch with.  Let your friends and family encourage you. You will be fine and it might be better off. The person that had to deal with this problem from black history is James Bablwin, because he moved a lot when he was younger. But he became a famous writer.

            There are many issues with teens with moving. But most of the time it’s great for you and you’ll be fine.