1. How is Jenny typical of a British teenager?
She shows the typical conventions of a teenage school girl, she lives with her parents and goes to school.
like a typical teenager she shows love interests with a boy his age who is much less mentally able then she is. her and her parents show interest in her future talking about universities which too is typical for a girl of her age. She is Sarcastic to her parents. we see jenny hanging out with her friends a lot at the beginning of the film , and if she is not doing that she is studying at home or with the parents.
her educational school is very present through out the film for example showing her progress in tests and her struggles in latin.
2. Draw comparisons and similarities of the britain you see here and the representation in alfie?
In An /education we see Britain from the side of a young female whose focus is on school and university, where as in Alfie we see Britain through the eyes of an older male. In Alfie it is based in the capital so the representation is more from a city angle but an Education is more of out of the city and is more of a countryside angle.
Alfie's story is based after school where he is out in the working world as a handy man, he did not get grades and qualifications which is what jenny in an education is striving to achieve.
The family values of the time are the same, both expect no sex before marriage and no children out of marriage, the woman is very much the one who stays at home and keeps the house tidy does the cooking etc and the man is the working one. In an education Jenny's partner is much from the upper class, upper class go to concerts, and fancy restaurants with a classy singer, showing that they have a much more exciting life then people from the working class which is represented in Alfie where they go the pub or sit at home with the family.
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