at seventeen
...ed hair and deep blue eyes. The youth in addition follows the stereotypical arrogance of a young male. We see this when he stubbornly waits to the last minute in a live threatening situation to ask for help from a female. Another principle that the text conforms to is the situation in which the two characters are united for the first time. This happens to be in a life threatening situation which happens in many romance movies and from that point onwards there romance flourishes and we can see this in the text as the female youth cares for the other as well as when the male youth follows her tracks at the end. I believe that the title At Seventeen was very wise to use as after reading it and looking back we can really believe that this actually how a 17 year old surfer would act. As when you are that age you believe that you are invincible and can do anything you want, however eventually you get brought back down to earth very quickly, and in this case it ...