Background: Felton is a tall strong jock that is kind of weird. He has a lot of problems because his dad killed him self when Felton was just five years old. Abby is one of the best looking girls that go their school but she also has some problems. She went from being a valedictorian to drinker because her mean dad divorced her his wife. Gus has been Felton’s life long friend. He can get himself in to trouble a lot but he is also the valedictorian.…
School starts for Arielle and as she expects, she is basically ignored and avoided. People don’t know how to speak to her because she, being once so close to Jenna, is a constant reminder that the girl they once knew is gone. Arielle is sad yet emotionless towards the society of her high school. Until she meets new boy Henry Rhodes. He is charming, sensitive and he and Arielle have an immediate connection. Sadly, he is claimed (without his knowledge) by the most popular girl in school, Lainey Ford, because he is rich like her and she believes that they would be perfect for each other.…
In the novel Wonder by RJ Palacio, the reader gains insight into Augusts situation at Beecher Prep by reading through the perspectives of his classmates Summer and Jack . After having an issue with one of his fellow students August’s mindset on friendship and school completely changes from “cool beans” (Palacio 69) to “[y]ou know Summer, you don't have to do this” (125). August clearly has had a gruelling time, but Summer, one of his two best friends, makes an effort to be their for him after his very distressful situation with Jack. August also displays certain symptoms of regret after being so trusting and then being betrayed when he overhears Jack talk down about him. Due to August not having immense amounts of friends…
Charlotte Johnston been sitting at a black top table surrounded by a group of chatty students her own age. And hadn't been paying much attention to what the teacher was saying, because everything zoned out, besides appearances and movements. Mr. Hube was wearing a bright purple sweater with tan khakis, and was extra fidgety. Something got him all hot and bothered, and it was obvious. His pale blue eyes glanced the room, and the pauses, he worried his lower lip, driving Charlotte crazy, that his outfit choice was bold for a teacher and that he appeared nervous to speak in front of his own class.…
The sky was raining ever so slightly over Canbourne Cove High School. In Canbourne Cove, there was a student named Sam Salvatore. Sam was what every kid would call a nerd. He would complete all his learning tasks to a high standard. He was a typical kid, he had brown eyes, brown hair and wore glasses. He was one of those students who would do their top button up. If he didn’t have it done up he could not continue his day. However, Sam had a sad side. Other students would tease him because of his physical appearance. Especially ‘The Bower brothers.’ Bradley, Barry and Ben. They weren’t really brothers, that’s just what people called them. Sam was a little bit over weight compared to the other students.…
Jimmy has not ever really had a healthy social life. Apart from the women he slept with, he had not made friends other the Crake. This had a huge impact on Jimmy’s life, because Crake was away at another school and Jimmy was left to be by himself, causing Jimmy to become extremely lonely. “He might go to the movie at the mall, just to convince himself he was part of a group of other people.” (307). When Jimmy worked at Anoo Yoo he did not make a single friend, he spent out his days…
Deanna Sellnow clearly explains the idea of popular culture in her article “What is Popular Culture and Why Study It?”. Popular culture is a very difficult concept to understand. After reading Sellnow’s article however, pop culture is simply just how people’s lives should apparently be. People watch television shows and see the families and think thats how their family should be or they see the actor’s actions and think thats how they should act as well. Popular culture is just an assumption of how people should act, think, or believe. The TV show Modern Family is a perfect example of popular culture persuasion. The title itself makes viewers think that that is how families should be because it is apparently a modern family.…
Over this week I read a novel by the award winning author Sharon M Draper. Draper has been nominated for Coretta Scott King Award for Authors and John Steptoe New Talent Award. Needless to say she is a very accomplished author. I read the New York Times bestseller Out of my Mind. First of all, Out of my Mind is about an eleven year old girl named Melody.…
<br>It all started in the summer when Bobby, an overweight fifteen year old is embarrassed to take his clothes off and swim in the beach because he is embarrassed that people would make fun of his wobbly legs and stomach, yet that isn't the his worst fear. He had taken swimming lessons the last summer, but quit because he started to gain a lot of weight. He tries to ignore the nasty remarks people say about him, but they stay in his mind. He can sort of ignore it because his best friend, Joanie has the ugliest nose on the face of the earth, but she doesn't care a bit about what other people think, which makes her Bobby's mentor, kind of.…
After accidentally throwing a book at his teacher, he was told to leave the reservation so he wouldn’t lose hope. As a result of leaving, Junior lost his best friend, gained a new friend, had an identity problem and now he feels to blame for the deaths of his sister. After leaving the reservation, Juniors sister mary got married and moved to Montana. Furthermore, Mary lived in a trailer home with her husband. After drinking so much one night Mary and her husband knocked out in their bedroom. Therefore, someone left the stove on and as a result of that, mary and her husband burned to death. Mary's dream was to write a romance novel but because she lost hope, after Junior left the reservation mary ran off to live her romance novel. At the funeral, Junior ran into the woods where he saw rowdy crying, “It’s all your fault… your sister is dead because of you left us. You killed her” (211). As Rowdy ran deeper into the woods, “I had killed my sister” (211). Afterwards Junior was starting to lose hope but his friends at Reardan gave him hope by standing up for him when he walked into class late. In conclusion, even though Junior left the reservation, lost his best friend, gained new ones, had an identity problem and blamed himself for the death of his sister Junior had a bright future…
“Where were you, too busy flirting with Sophie to hang with us?” Max called over the yelling of the boys by the oak trees. I just waved the question as I was too busy pumping up my confidence and adrenaline, to go up to the Sixth Formers to get some tickets for Sophie. With shaking hands, I waded through the crowd of my classmates who were all hollering at what was probably…
Kindness is such a simple thing that so many teens and adults alike have a hard time doing. The desire to be socially accepted sometimes outweighs the pros of being kind to others. In Palacio’s book Wonder, readers are introduced to a character named August Pullman. August is challenged with a facial deformity that causes him to look different than others. He has received many surgeries to fix some of the issues, but because of his surgeries, August has never went to school. At the age of ten his parents decided it was time for August to go to school. They enrolled August into a private academy so that the burden of school would not be a difficult task to handle. August knew going in that students would not be okay with the way he looked, but he took the plunge anyways. August was a smart kid and knew some day he was going to have to face the world. Who would have thought it would have been during prime time middle school. August was “like a lamb to the slaughter” who was struggling to survive middle school. He needed a friend like Christopher who would look past his physical appearance. He was in need of a small act of kindness. Throughout the book, August received many small act of kindness. However, those acts of kindness did not come without a price. See for teens, when they are scared of something or someone they try and make the life of others around them more difficult. In…
Friendship is something that has been difficult but means a lot to Charlie, ever since his best friend Michael committed suicide. “And I think it’s sad because Susa ndoesn’t look as happy. To tell you the truth, she doesn’t like to admit she’s in advanced English class, and she doesn’t like to say ‘hi’ to me in the hall anymore.” (7). Charlie notices a lot about Susan during his first couple of days of school because she is one of the only people he knows. Charlie seems lonely in the beginning of the school year however he soon makes two very good friends. At one of the school football games Patrick recognized Charlie from his wood shop class and called him over where he met Patrick’s stepsister Sam. Eventually Patrick and Sam became Charlie’s best friends and they even introduced him to other people whom he also became friends with.…
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.…
The author’s town recently experienced a tragic accident, which left two teenage girls for dead, and a few weeks later, their close friend took his life by suicide. Needless to say, the lives of many peers have been thrown into major upheaval. One adolescent in particular, known to be friendly, loving, and honorable, is now of deep concern to his parents and close loved ones. Since the death of his girlfriend and two close friends, he has become an adolescent who bursts into anger, calling his mother names while using profanity, he sleeps little, no longer eats at the family dinner table, and avoids any family members or places which bring back…