Everyone wants to be like her she never really had any enemies. Cass was always good at what she did in life no matter what it was. One day Cass was going to class when she was stopped buy a kid named David Kirby. She really didn’t associate with him, however she knew of his older brother who had graduated a year earlier. David Kirby had gotten the nerve to ask Cass out. She didn’t really know what to do so she just said that she had been really busy lately and she would let him know if she could hang out later or not. Since Cass was so surprised by Davie asking her out she wanted to go tell her best friend who she had in her next hour class. So Cass writes all about it in a letter to her friend and sticks it in her desk so her friend will go by and pick it up at the end of the hour. Little does she know David saw Cass put the letter in her desk and at the end of the hour he took it out of the desk and read…
Connie is a beautiful, self indulgent 15 year old girl. Her mother is very overbearing and praises her 24 year old sister, June, more than her. June is everything that Connie isn’t. She works hard to make money on her own, helps her parents around the house, and is mature and independent. Connie strives to receive attention and praise that her family never gives her, which is why she secretly hangs out with older boys without her parents knowing. Her insecurities and rebellion puts her in an extremely vulnerable place to be taken advantage of.…
This story starts in the perspective of a young girl named Celie. Celie is an African American girl who is constantly abused by her father and is then forced to marry a man known as Mr. _____. Celie is used to being treated as if she is worthless and assumes that it is normal for every man to abuse his wife. The one thing that she looks forward to is the return of her sister, Nettie. The two were split up when Celie married Mr. _____. When Celie…
Olive Pendergast is an average high school student - not one of the super-popular girls, but not a loser either. She gets good grades, comes from a happy home; her life is as easy-peasy as any teen's could get. Then a little lie she tells her best friend spreads through the school as white hot rumors naturally do. At first she enjoys the extra attention, and uses it to help out a friend. But of course, things go south, Olive becomes the school outcast, and she goes the distance to set right the things she can and move ahead with her life.…
The environment I grew up in was a very bad neighborhood. The house we lived in, was in very horrible condition and accidents always happening around our surroundings. With my dad always out, struggling to work for us to always have food on the table and clothes on our bodies and my older brother always out doing things he wasn't supposed to do, we as a family never had time to talk about how our days went or what was on minds. A few years passed,my older sister Rosie, was 9 at the time, got into a car accident and sadly passed away. We as a family went through a tough time. My mother and father then decided that it was best for us to move into a more stable and friendly environment for my older brother, my soon to…
On the first day of school Virginia had no one to hang out with since her best friend Sharon moved away. So instead, Virginia decided to hide in the bathroom stall and have lunch there. Although she didn’t mind the floor, she heard the popular girls come into the bathroom. They were skinny and pretty, Virginia was no were close to their friend. Virginia’s older brother was the most popular guy in high school and that fact wouldn’t even change her popularity. As the girls came into the bathroom, they were chatting about Virginia and one of them commented on her weight. The next day Virginia decided to hide out in one of her teachers classrooms. Virginia’s life at home was always under spoken because no one in the family really liked to deal with anything and they would avoid problems at any extent. There was one exception, Virginia’s father would always comment on her weight and make remarks such as that she was getting heavier. Everyone in Virginia’s family was perfect to Virginia. Skinny and good looking, so Virginia always felt like she stuck out like a sore thumb. One day Virginia had Froggy over and they were cuddling and bed and all of a sudden Virginia’s mother came home from work. Froggy hid under Virginia’s bed as her mother walked in. She told Virginia the reason she came home early was to take her to the doctor to discuss her diet and her weight. Virginia was…
Mattie had just lost her father and she lives with her mother and her two little brothers. Mattie’s mother has not been feeling well so Mattie decided to buy her a wonderful present for mother’s day. One day while Mattie was shopping , she saw a gold pin, which she taught would be the perfect gift to her mother but the pin cost 50$. Mattie didn’t have have 50$ so she paid 10$ so that the store would keep it for her for 30 days. Mattie needed a way to find money, so one of her friends told her to join a contest. The contest was to write what your mother means to you. Mattie decided to enter the contest and after a couple of weeks she sent her essay to the office. While Mattie was waiting, she got in trouble at school. Her friend Angel accused Mattie of stealing her bracelet. After a couple of days Charlene was the person who the bracelet. The same afternoon Mattie got a letter telling her she won the contest, but it was too late because someone had bought the gold pin When Mattie’s mother found out she was very happy and things started changing in Mattie’s life. The theme of this story is that love can cause people to change because in the beginning Mattie’s mother was always frustrated but when she found out what her daughter was doing she started…
Anna is a troubled housewife from Nantucket, Massachusetts who lives with a husband for whom she has little affection. Her primary difficulty is that she has substantial self-image issues. She cannot comprehend anyone finding her existence significant, which is exacerbated by an unaffectionate relationship with her husband. Anna is wrought with suicidal inclinations and has at least on one occasion acted on these impulses. "But the bath water made her dizzy, all that perpetual heat, and one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen". (Oates 394) Anna 's neurotic behavior does not mesh well with what this story was initially intended to depict, a love story where the main character experiences great emotional…
“I had to quit the job, but the problem was going to be how to do it.” Margaret began to make mistakes when cleaning, but that was not enough. “I had begun to leave egg yolk on the dishes and wasn’t putting much heart in polishing the silver.” After endless tries Margaret breaks one Mrs. Cullinan precious Virginia dishes. “You mean to say she broke our Virginia dishes? What we gone do?” Mrs. Cullinan cried louder. “That clumsy nigger. Clumsy little black nigger.” Infuriated her mistress finally called Margaret by her real name. “Her name’s Margaret, goddamn it, her name’s…
In this short story we meet Sister and four members of her family. The Protaganist of the story ia Sister , the oldest child of two girls, and her younger sister Stella-Rondo is the family favorite. It seems everything Sister wants, Stella-Rondo gets. Sister says that Stella-Rondo stole her boyfriend for it was Sister who had been dating Mr. Whitaker first until Stella- Rondo, being the jealous person she was told him that Sister was "one-sided," unequal on both sides. And that in-turn ended the relationship.Sisters real problem is that she is extreamly jelous of Stella-rondo. And she, Sister, at times can be a little selfish. For instance at the end Sister says to herself, "And if Stella-Rondo should come to me this minute, on bended knee, and attempt to explain the incidents of her life with Mr. Whitaker, I'd simply put my fingers in both my ears and refuse to listen" (153). That statement alone defines her jealously and selfishness towards her sister, because it seems Mr. Whitaker is the only thing she is really upset about for she makes no mention about any of the other family members,…
The story opens with Alice dealing with somewhat relevant issues as some of us do today. Alice is considered herself as a "typical" teenager. For example, she worries about boys, acceptance from her peers, her weight, and her family. At her school, she worries about what her crush thinks of her and she explains her discomforts there. She gets excited, though, when…
Connie is fifteen years old and obviously self-conscious because of the love that she never receives at home. Her whole life revolves around attention from boys since she does not feel loved at home. Her sister June appears to be the favorite in the family, as she receives all of the positive attention. Connie's mother doesn’t speak kindly to Connie or about Connie, and Connie doesn't think well of her mother either. Her father does whatever he can to please Connie but doesn’t seek for a good father-daughter relationship. They never talk about what is happening in their lives and act as if they are only acquaintances. Connie wants to appear older and wiser than she actually is and her head is always full of meaningless daydreams to help her cope. Her promiscuity leads to attraction from boys and older men where she becomes terrified and realizes that she is not as grown up as she thought. Connie comes face to face with the harshreality of being forced into adulthood at the age of fifteen because of the special attention of Arnold Friend.…
This story begins with a pretty popular girl in a middle school, named Katherine, who breaks out of her stereotype and shows her real image to the readers. Generally popular girls in school are yielding, modest and generous. But, Katherine is really stubborn, arrogant, and selfish. There are many incidents that explain her characters. In one incident she asks Harold, “Do you think I am pretty? I’ am not looking for compliments. I want to know for a private reason.” By this the readers come to know that she is self-centered and she is looking for the expression of admiration from him about her beauty. As the story moves on Katherine breaks out of her stereotype, by yelling at Charley, a well-known guy in school who also breaks out of his typecast and shows that he is dumber than a rock.…
Have you ever been in a situation were you cant except who you are and want to be the same as everybody else???? Amy Tan the writer of fish cheeks writes about herself. She is very creative but has a problem. she is Chinese but everybody else is American and she feels kind different. and lest out. and wishes she could be American. So without her knowing her mom and dad invite the family that her crush perhaps to be the son of the ministers family so she thinks he’s going to think were weird cause they had Chinese traditions for Christmas eve.…
Once upon a time their was a girl named Sarah she had a very complicated life. She went to numerous alleviator but, she was not going to communicate with another alleviator. When she was five years old she was adopted from Russia. She was always infuriated although, she did not fully comprehend why she was vexed. She went through many foster homes although, she was aggravated with all of them. Even though her parents idolized her so much they refused to give up on her. Sara could not comprehend that because, why would her parents put her in a hospital and would not let her go home? Her life has been impenetrable and she knew no one would understand what she went through. She knew that people cared about her but, she…