Non Fiction Reading Response on Saudi Arabia’s youths

Jacob Sutton 808

 

                   Non Fiction Reading Response on Saudi Arabia’s youths

 

            “Growing up Saudi” by Karen Elliott House is an article about how young people in Saudi Arabia are questioning authority and Government on how they treat youth people.  Some cities in Saudi Arabia let the youth do anything they want.  The youth play really loud music that disrupts all the people in the neighborhood, and they pick fights a lot.  The cops and chiefs in the neighborhood are on the scene but never dare to try and stop their wrong-doing.  But in some more conservative towns and cities, teens and regular young people are prohibited from many things that adults aren’t.  They are not allowed to see movies, play music, and other things that the youth should be allowed to do.  They don’t even get to know they are going to get married until the parents arrange it for them. 

            Of course every society has youth who resent authority, reject rules and test out their independence.  But since Saudi Arabia is such an important country in the Middle East, This is very important to many other countries.

            According to the article, a 17 year old says that he would definitely allow girls and boys to go to school together, but his town doesn’t allow that.  Saudi parents usually push their sons and daughters toward their studies but the youth wants something more than that.  The article just says that the teens just want freedom.  They are at an age that is more energetic than their parents’ age.  They want to do more than just focus on their studies; they want a job and do something with their lives that does not involve their parents towering over them about it.  This is why they are increasingly asking questions and in general questioning the authorities and the Government.