When you choose to categorize teenagers in the 1950s, whether by class or gender, each group is different from each other but some individuals have the same struggle which can make them similar to each other. Each group, no matter how dissimilar they were in background and behavior, each contained the same struggle they faced during that time. In the movie Rebel Without a Cause, we are exposed to three different teenagers who each had to deal with a different struggle that brought them together. At the beginning of the film we get a sense of how teenagers were portrayed during that time as rebellious and troubled. As the plot continues, we are taken by the portrayal that has been given to the teenagers and enter into the perspective of the teenagers and how they have reacted to the world. The film achieves this by following the lives of Jim, Judy and Plato, three teenagers who are each dealing with a personal problem at home and are trying to find methods to deal with them. Through their experiences the viewer is shown the difficulties that teenagers faced in society and at home and how they were forced to act in a certain way when they wanted to break free. With each new scene the viewer is forced to see life from the point of view of a teenager, where everything in his life is exaggerated and unrealistic, and what a teenager means to them. Rebel Without a Cause, is a film based on three teenagers Jim, Judy and Plato all come from middle class families but are perceived as hoodlums in the eyes of many around them and takes place over a 24 hour time frame. The film begins in a prison where the three had their first meeting. Jim was arrested for public drunkenness, while Judy is arrested... halfway through the paper... this feeds her vision of a teenage perspective perfectly. For teenagers, everything is exaggerated, full of drama and amplified meaning. The bad seeds that cross Jim's path seem harmless today, but in the 1950s they posed a real threat. As Thomas Hine's The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager explains, the 1950s saw a rise in fictional concern about juvenile delinquency. Of course, their subsequent game of “chicken” is anything but trivial. Making them believe they are adults helps them feel good. They believe they can do a better job than their parents. Interestingly, they play the roles of life in the suburbs, mocking it at the same time. But here's a revealing moment. Judy says she wants a man "who can be kind and gentle." This is contrary to Jim's idea of ​​what a man is. When Jim considers this, Plato begins to feel as if Jim has abandoned him, just as his father did.