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HOME Home and Away is an Australian Soap Opera airing on Channel 7 at 7:00pm every weeknight. It is based in a Beach setting ( Palm Beach) called Summer Bay.

To maintain high ratings, Home and Away has to keep changing the plot. This leads to extravagant story lines and misleading portrayals of teenage lives. Certain Myths are such as the amount of wild events that happen in weekly life. This is unrealistic and shows false conceptions of reality.

Whilst there are many myths of teen years represented in 'Home and Away', there are also some realities. These include the fact that the characters are not all "Beautiful People" and are not always dressed up to full beauty. In addition to this, the extravagant storyline does not necessarily portray the true amount of crazy events in teen life, it does indeed show mood changes and emotional instability in the characters. This is a Partially true representation of the feelings created by the raging hormones of puberty. Home and Away may influence teens ability to cope with the changes of Puberty as they may get different conceptions of what is regular in Teen Years. Feeling like they are irregular and not normal. This is hazardous to teen growth, as feelings of irregularity lead to lack of confidence and unsure feelings. media type="youtube" key="RFtgGxcNQMQ" height="174" width="301"

//Neighbours// is very similar to Home and Away in the way that it has an extravagant storyline and dramatic characters. //Neighbours// is Set in "//Ramsay Street//", the street in which each major character lives. Amongst other areas. It airs at 6:30pm on Network 10. It competes with Home and Away to be the prominent Soap Opera on Australian television.

As said above, //Neighbours// has a greatly extravagant plot, distorting concepts of regular behaviour and life. As in Home and Away, most of the young women and men are Attractive, not showing the broad range of peoples different looks and 'Beauty'. The characters often if not usually have perfect skin, that is of course if the plot is not based around a large Zit. Although in saying this, as in Home and Away also, the characters are not always shown at the hight of their looks, eg. Morning Hair.

Neighbours can influence Adolescent's ability to cope with puberty, as they may base how they are to act around the show. This can be hazardous to growing up in maturity as they may fail to determine the difference between the realities of the show and the myths often portrayed.

Soap Operas are not a genuine portrayal of regular life and if people realise this and distinguish between reality and myth, then viewing can be enjoyable and even beneficial. It all depends on personal maturity, understanding of themes and of course taste. media type="youtube" key="_IDyM1JKl8E" height="229" width="384"