Albie Want To Become Cool

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How would you feel if no one has ever said yes to you, the only thing your friends and parents have ever said to you is almost, almost Albie almost. Well that is life for Albie. Albie Wants to have a normal life at his new school and have a lot of friends that are cool, but for him to become cool he has to change his personality and he loses his friendship with Betsy, his best friend. So he learns the ways of a cool kid, and he starts to realize issues in his friendship. then he gets rejected by the cool kids because they thought he lied about being friends with a TV star, and becomes much more aware of the problems he has created by not being himself. he decides to stop trying to be cool and tries to become best friends with betsy again, after some struggle he finally does, but he wouldn’t of needed to do that if he stayed true to himself. finally, his life becomes normal. be true to who you are. My claims to support that are …show more content…

One example is the chapter when he talks about what it’s like and what you need to do to be cool. Another example is when Albie tries to leave notes in Betsy’s desk to teach her how to be cool, and how she says she doesn’t want to learn how to be cool and how that reflects badly on him. One more example is when Betsy and him are separating because Betsy doesn’t want to be cool, and Darren made Albie not hang out with her because she wasn’t cool. That made Albie sad because he missed being able to hang out with Betsy. And finally, my last example is when Albie finds out that the only reason Darren wanted him to be his friend was because Albie was friends with a TV star, and when Darren and his friends watched the show and it was Erlan’s Birthday they didn’t see Albie in it and they thought that Albie was just lying about being friends with him, but really Albie’s dad didn’t want him on TV so they couldn’t shoot any shots with him in

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