The youth lens is something that can put people like adults in the shoes of an adolescent for a second so they can better understand a different thought process. I will be writing my youth lens focus about Eleanor and Park because the way the story plays out it is most fit for a youth lens focus point. The youth lens point of view of Eleanor and Park is easier to look at because the narration of the story is based around Eleanor’s point of view so it is easier to basically get into her mind and see what she is thinking about and her thought process as a whole. In Eleanor and Park, it seems to me from Eleanor’s point of view that the parents sort of run the show. The parents provide for them, put food on the table and set the rules so there is a clear stated fact that the parents are in charge in the book Eleanor and Park but how they manage that power could be a lot different. Richie, Eleanor’s set father, clearly has power issues when it comes to setting rules for the kids and managing what goes on in his house. He tends to try too much to control them because he feels the need to have control over every aspect of his house and doesn’t want to and doesn’t try to relate to any of the children and when that happens he has no clue how to set the right kind of rules for his household. If he had used a more “Youth Focus” idea and see things from the point of view of an adolescent then maybe some problems could’ve been avoided.