Insecurities of the Average Teenager

Imagine being a fourteen year old girl with many insecurities and parents who just don’t understand. Georgia Nicoloson feels just that way in the book "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging" . This character, Georgia, was created by the author, Louise Rennison, who took some of her own experiences from a kid and put them into this book. She knows that being a teenager if filled with a lot of fun but also there are many difficulties.

Louise Rennison lives in Brighton, England however she grew up in a town named Leeds where she had many child hood memories where stories in her series "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" are based after. She was brought up in a three bedroom house with her mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, and her cousin. One of the stories that she took from her life and put into her book is when she bleached her hair with some cleaning product to get it blonde, however just like Georgia it turned hard and right in front of the boy she had a crush on it broke off. There are many other stories that the author put in that shows the average teenagers insecurities and struggles to fit in.

In the book "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging" Georgia is always worried about fitting in; she was always caught up in how she looked and what she wore. She would change herself to fit in and would always worry about what people thought about her; "In my room in front of my mirror. Practicing smiling without making me nose spread. It is impossible. I must never smile again. " Georgia thought this after she just got rated by her friends saying that she had a bad nose and smile. The lesson of this book is to not let what people think about you change you. You shouldn't


Be confident. That is what it is all about; you have to be confident with who you are; don’t be diffident about yourself. Never worry about what others think of you; always believe in who you are. And make sure you know that being different isn’t always a bad thing.