Complicated The Characteristics of Luke

55 Family pressure is one of the pressures which seem to be the most substantial factor in affecting Luke’s psychological life. Being neglected, blamed, not to mention feeling of distrust are the specific forms of pressures used to derive from parents, and unconsciously build the loss of self-esteem, a negative identity, and an alienation from the self of the adolescent Conger 556. Dan wouldn’t talk about Luke anymore; he fobbed off, all the time. And he wouldn’t talk to Luke, not one word, not since those last exams. “He’s on his own now, “Dan had said 45-46. Yes, Luke would probably fail, and he’d go on the dole, end up on the scrapheap, because that was the kind of thing Luke did. That was Luke and he had to accept it. He hated what the boy had brought upon them; not just the disappointment and bafflement, or the anger that rose at the sight of the kid throwing away his chances, chucking every advantage they’d struggled to give him straight back in their faces – but the shame 114. She thought of drugs; drugs would have been an obvious answer to the puzzle of why he failed at school. She’d often studied Luke’s bare arms, searching for needle marks; peered at his eyes, uselessly, because she was never able to remember if drugs made the pupils go big, or small… 141-142 The way his dad ignores and refuses to speak to him, which Conger used to call “love-withdrawal techniques”, has eventually put such negative impact on Luke’s psychological development, despite his difficulty in forming satisfying peer relations though Conger 528. As peers perform many of the same functions in adolescence as in childhood, two of which are to share similar problems and feelings, and to control 56 social behavior, it therefore does not close any possibility to cause such pressure towards an individual Conger 325, Ausubel 367, Kimmel 149. The peer pressure Luke experiences is more or less influenced by his personality characteristics and social behaviors, which in some senses seem difficult to be accepted by his peers Conger 343. Her face had gone hot, like it always did when Liz started putting on the pressure, hinting that Luke was a loser and Caro could do better for herself. Perhaps she even had a point, because sometimes Caro felt Luke was driving her crazy 24. This analysis is reaffirmed by Conger, which states that boys who used to be marked as trouble-maker will appear less friendly, less responsible, more impulsive, and more antagonistic to authority. In return, they are less liked and accepted by their peers 581. Besides those two pressures, there is still one factor which remains in giving impact towards adolescents’ psychological life, namely school pressure. At any rate, teachers, subjects and exams are the things to blame due to the pressures found in adolescents; and it often ends up in poor school performance or dropping out of school Conger 407-408. But no poem had come because he’d started thinking about arithmetic again, six poems and only three days left, and about how strange it was that all the classes and homework and essays and exams, a whole thirteen years, had cancelled down to this one final assignment, the Writing Folder, Creative Writing 3B. To six pages, the pages that should have held the six poems he couldn’t seem to write 118-119. As Conger has pointed out, children with label as trouble-marker tend to show their reluctance in schoolwork, in which they are much more easily distracted,