Adolescence In The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody

Just as everyone has been an adolescent, everyone has seen a depiction of adolescence somewhere in the media. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody is just one of the many forms adolescence is portrayed. In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, adolescence varies from child to child. The twin boys, Zack and Cody, are wild. They run freely throughout the hotel, make a large number of mistakes, but eventually learn from them. Maddie, a bit older than the two boys, is seen as the dependable on with a good head on her shoulders, an open mind, and good heart. London, the same age as Maddie, was the one with a closed mind and who cared for very little people. She wasn’t very smart and generally made comments that might hurt another without realizing it. These
In fact, multiple studies have proven that teens are more prone to taking risks, but it isn’t due to the brain. Teenagers do not just wake up one day wanting to take risks, just as adults do not wake up one day with an addiction, they learn these behaviors. In fact, a large amount of these risks teenagers make are due to “short range thinking and peer pressure” (Giedd). If these risks taken were due to the brain, teens wouldn’t think twice. They would be waking up rebellious, doing wild things alone, and not thinking of the consequences when, in reality, most of the risks teenagers take occur with friends. More than likely a teen was somewhere outside of their home with a group of their friends, when something was brought up. These teenagers wanted to seem “cool” or “popular”, so they did what the others said, even if it was deemed dangerous and risky beforehand. It is these outside environments that are pressuring teenagers to act the way they are, influencing the way their minds think, and causing this reckless behavior a large majority of teenagers portray. An example of this would be when London and Maddie, two teenagers from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, folded to peer pressure. In the episode “Health and Fitness”, Francesca, one of London's friends, commented on the two girls appearance which caused them to change the way they would normally act. Maddie saw herself as too skinny and forced herself to eat more to gain weight, while London saw herself as overweight and forced herself to exercise more and eat less. Although this behavior was not a physical risk to others, it was a risk to themselves. If this behavior had continued it would have grown into a more serious issue- perhaps anorexia or bulimia- showing just how impressionable a teenagers brain is, even to the smallest