Why hasn't anyone written about Teen Wolf?!

Matt joked about it in class saying that someone should write about Teen Wolf , but why was that a joke? How is Teen Wolf any less valid of a modern werewolf story? Well here's the thing, it's not. As we have read and discussed at length over the past few days, werewolves exist as an outlier to our society. They are the physical manifestation of what we don't understand and what we fear to become. In Teen Wolf, Scott Howard is just your average high schooler who sucks at basketball and is in love with a pretty girl who doesn't even know he exists. After finding out about his "family trait" which involves turning into a hairy, scary but relatively tame werewolf he starts to change his life starts to change. It's no secret that in the case of Teen Wolf, Scott's lycanthropy is an allegory for the weird changes that come from going through puberty. His body is changing and he doesn't know why or how to deal with it. He's brimming with confidence and strength but is also misunderstood by those who see him as a monster. Just like in the old(e) days when something doesn't make sense to us we turn it into a monster story to help us deal with it and understand it. Back then it was "Why did that guy eat all those peasant's organs? Must be a werewolf." Now we've pretty much figured out the that the serial organ eater's aren't turning into wolves under a full moon but there are still "monsters" we deal with all the time. Even if we do understand the science behind what happens during puberty (spoiler alert: we do) it's still nice to go back to our roots and use something we don't fully understand as the basis for our modern'day monster stories.