Loony Teens

Answers to questions:

1. The teen is nervous. Although he studied and put in much effort before the exam, his state of mind would affect his performance. The tension and stress from the exam would tend to affect the teen mentally. He is unable to think clearly and extract the information out from what he has painstakingly learned. Literally, the information "flies out". (as illustrated by the comic)

2. Based on the second cartoon, the father does not understand how to communicate with the son regarding his school life. The father posts a question that obviously, in a teenagers, is not necessary. The father even prefers it if the son ignores him because he does not know how to communicate with the son normally.

3. In the second cartoon, the teenager is trying to tell his father that there is nothing different about school. It is just a routine - carrying out the same thing everyday just because he has to, not because he wants to. In a way, he may be implying that school is boring.

In the third cartoon, the son is trying to get the father to understand that the Internet is down and in the teen world, it is a big crisis. The son uses a symbolic explanation - Eskimos naming ice and water - to explain to the father that teens today live in the modernized world, thus there are many different ways to explain problems with the internet.

4. In the second cartoon, it shows that the father somehow knows how the son reacts to rheotorical questions. The father realises that "How was school?" is a question which does not need an answer from his son; it is understood. After asking and receiving an answer, the father somehow understands a little why his son ignores him at times.