Chapter 11: The Girl in Conflict
Reference:
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa. Harper Perennial, 1928 (1971)
Summary:
This chapter logs four female delinquents of the island. The first two had to do with being hard to please and ended with circumstances in sex while the latter two were of the opposite type where they made themselves lower by craving attention and also showing it excessively.
The first two were pampered by either their family or the pastor's house and when transitioning in society demanded the same type of duty.
The second two Mead thinks were the way they were due to lack of affection as their parents (one or both) had died at a young age. This culminated in conflict through struggles, fights, fits of rage and the like.
Discussion:
This was the first chapter that I feel actually stuck to the point of it. It was nice having an outline in the beginning for what she was going to talk about, then actually following through with it.
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