Looking for a short story on conflicts between teenagers and their parents

[Mik]

Hi everybody,

I'm a bit stuck at the moment and I thought that some of you might be able to help me out with their short story knowledge:

I'm a teacher from Germany and I'm doing a short story project with my year-10 class. The topics of the stories should revolve around the topic "conflicts between teenagers/children and their parents" in the broadest sense so that there's some kind of a common thread running through the project.

I've picked "Written in Fire" by Florence McIntyre and "My son the fanatic" by Hanif Kureishi so far and I would really appreciate if you had ideas for a third one for me.

Thanks very much in advance,

Michael

[mal4mac]

What about taking short extracts from novels? If you fancy that, "East of Eden" by Steinbeck has hundreds of pages of conflict to choose from!

[Mik]

That would be a good idea. The only problem is that I am supposed to write a thesis about these lessons for my teacher training afterwards and so I'm afraid it needs to be a short (short) story...
But thanks anyway!

[Lokasenna]

I would have thought that Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye would be suitable?

[kev67]

I can think of We Need to Talk About Kevin (probably not suitable anyway) and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, but neither are short. Truman Capote wrote a short story called A Christmas Memory, which one of the stories accompanying my copy of Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's more about him as a chld with an elderley aunt, but it is clear he does not get on with his parents. I am not sure if that is completely suitable either, but he wrote quite a few short stories and it seems to be a recurring theme. I suspect Capote's parents sent him to military school to knock all the effeminancy out of him.

[AuntShecky]

"All the Years of Her Life" by Canadian author Morley Callaghan would be appropriate I think. The story appears in several high school anthologies over here. For good reason-- it's a wonderful story.

Check out Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. Also "A Lucid Eye in Silver Town" by John Updike. If you're not averse to portions of novels, the explosive relationship of Noonan with his abusive father in Richard Russo's The Bridge of Sighs.

[Mik]

Thanks a lot lot for your help everybody!