Character Research

1. Youth are often represented in accordance with popular notions of adolescence

Cook often gets into fights and doesn’t let anyone stop him from getting what he wants. Cooks dad is just immature as he is and therefore cook has no role model. Cook is rude and just

speaks his mind.

2. Youth are often demonised the mass media Cook smokes, drinks a lot, does a lot of drugs and often gets

into fights. Cook has been let down by his dad because he is a really bad role model and is very immature.

3. Youth are represented as being let down by adults Cooks Dad let him down and in the last episode of series 3 of Skins we see why. Cooks Dad lives on a

small boat and is slowly drinking/smoking himself to an early grave. No one in his village likes him and he is known down his local pub for always causing a scene.