Unfamiliar Text practice

In this text, the author talks about a museum exhibit. The exhibit features 26 teenage bedrooms and was created to “conserve the evolving museum of identity and experience that adolescents build around themselves”. The writer explains the exhibit to us and what they think the creator was trying to say with it. The author uses language feature and these help us understand the different ideas about teenage bedrooms.

One of these language features is contrast “unbrushed hair pulled imactuatly back into a scruffy bun” this use of word makes no sense how can something be immaculate yet scruffy and unbrushed it is a contrast between to polar opposites but it teaches us an immense amount about teenage bedrooms, and just teenages in general. This bun is has taken a long time to perfect, to get is looking like it took no time, like they woke up like this this put together but also causal and effortless. There is contrast all though the text “between adult and child” grown up but not old, “home comfort and independent rebel” cozy but cool and edgy

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