Best Years Of Our Lives Rhetorical Devices

The song I picked which best illustrates my adolescence is “Best Years of Our Lives” by Evan Taubenfeld. This song is about friendship changes happen during adolescence and teenagers have to accept those changes with regret and sadness. The lyrics are about a boy’s best friend leaves and everything changes, he has to accept her leaving and adjust the life without her beside. “Everything is different now, can we stop the world from turning” repeats over and over again, the boy never thinks he would be departing with his best friend, and he just wants to go back to the past, and treasures the time with his best friend. This song indicates change in the display of intimacy during adolescence, about adolescents’ caring and concern their friends …show more content…
Sadness, depression and missing the old days are normal in adolescents’ life, teenagers are drowning in depressive emotions, but it’s ok to be depressive; it’s not depression syndrome. Also, even the best friendship is not stable, as this song indicates, so teenagers would experience relationships breaking, someone’s leaving, cherished things losing, even trusted people betraying, they could bear more severe situations and know nothing could last forever, which will treat farewell normally and not be sensitive to everything. Moreover, because they know everything has its end, they would learn to cherish every relationship and nothing should be taken for granted from this song. When you are in your prime time, just seize the day and never wasting time on fighting with your friends, because sometimes the things you thought never change would never come back. However, though this song tells a sad story and illustrates a fact that someone important to you will ultimately leave, it is still called “Best Years of Our Lives”. The time we spent with friends, families, our beloved people, is the most valuable time of our lives, the best years of our