Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives
(John Nikkah)
Our Boy?s Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives by John Nikkah is a compilation of essays written by teenage boys. Nikkah was a graduate student in clinical psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City when he contacted five thousand schools for essays written by teen boys, age 12 to 18, across America. The best of these essays are collected in this book, which address concerns of interest to teens today such as depression, violence, video games, drugs, sex, dating and sports.
The essays are divided into three parts: Our Inner Circle,about family; Our World, about the social World teens live in; and Ourselves, about the teens inner world and how they see themselves. Essays that concern the teens family and closest friends are grouped in section one. These focus on intimacy and close relationships.In the second section, ?The World? the reader learns about school, peer pressure and the wider social groups teens belong to, including drug and alcohol use. Section three ?Ourselves? refers to the teens inner world and identity formation. Many of the essays in this section show the teen's fragile identity and how they are still developing, emotionally.
The essays that make up Our Boy's Speak : Adolescent Boys Write About Their inner Lives are successful because they are written by the teen boys, themselves. Their honesty and candor speaks to the reader because of the truthfulness of the writers. What these boys talk about, in their writings, is not easy to discuss. They have courage to write about themselves in such an open manner. When the reader leaves this book, he feels he has looked inside the minds and hearts of today's teenage boys.
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