“I would rather live in a book than live in the real world. It’s as if the only thing that matters are the stories before my eyes,” said Gabriela Marie Gonzalez, a Junior attending Detroit Cristo Rey high school.
As high school students, throughout life we have obtained specific role models. For instance, a basketball player may play basketball due to the fact he hopes to become the next Magic Johnson. Yet, a miniscule amount of students have found solace in literature. Escaping into the world of the unknown where the fluent stroke of a pen or the click-clack of keyboard keys entices them to become something more. Something better. Something… …show more content…
She sticks it to the man!” says Juanita Zuniga an aspiring writer.
Even though students believe in their hearts of hearts that they have chosen their role models for rational reasons. They often choose characters based on materialistic characteristics such as Tanika Dunbar. Who says that Peeta Mellark is her hero due to the fact that he has an amazing jawline. Tanika even went on to say, “that bod tho,” when discussing Peeta.
However, there are others who maintain a more refined sense of classification. For instance, Gabriela chose the character Hazel Grace as her heroine due to the fact she believes Hazel is a complex and selfless character. And Juanita chose Peggy Carter considering Peggy, a woman living in the 60s who exemplified a phenomenal amount of female power, has always been one of her role models. She continued to explain by saying, “in Captain America she kicks