Plot: At age fifteen her life was a set of ups and downs. Her family consisting of her little sister Alexandria, Tim, Dad and Mom, were off to their new home, in a new city, where she could be anything she wanted. Leaving behind, whom she believed was the love of her life, into a new high school were things were not going as plan. Not instantly becoming popular (which she was not at her last school either), her only friend was another quite like girl name Beth. Wanting nothing more than to stay during the summer with Beth off at camp, her parents sent her to live with her grandparents during the summer, back in her old town. At a party with her new friends they played a drinking game: ten of fourteen drinks of coke had LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) …show more content…
Written in diary format, this book is indeed fiction, written by Sparks who is an American therapist. Hinted that our girl name is Carla, during an outsider’s comment towards her, tells her life as you would suspect a fifteen-year-old to do. Diary format gives you her true thoughts, even the ones that are boring, and the book is a letdown until the first party happens. From them Sparks’s story goes to the wind as our girls falls in love with her trips, having sex, and runs away from home. The struggle is she deals with her addiction, going clean only to fall back into the drug using habit. Pressure from the people she once called a friend, who she had once pushed drugs on, turn on her, trying to draw her back to the dark side. Her emotions rang from her hatred to drugs “It simply isn’t worth it! Every day for the rest of my life I shall dread weakening again and becoming something I simply do not want to become” (121), to her love of them “And I’m glad I’m back. Glad! Glad! Glad! I’ve never had it better that I had it last night” (97). With numbers of teens having stated that they try or are on drugs, a main one, cannabis (pot / weed), is becoming legal in most countries, Sparks hit a homerun, showing how destructive they really are. This emotional story has the ups and downs, addiction, relapse, and a caring family who did not know what happen to
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
There is a slight glimmer of hope when the school year ends and the girls all receive their report cards. They stand eagerly in the hallway, none of them can break their gaze at the slips of paper in their teacher’s hands. Pashtana finishes 15th in her class and in this moment looks forward to a new year in the 8th grade. Unfortunately, Pashtana and her family were living off of $7 a week, a dollar to spend a day. She soon got married to her cousin and has not been back to school since their last day.
The protagonist is Aja Houston. She grew up in Middletown Delaware. She was the oldest out of three daughters. She considered herself the "experimental “child. Her parents were very young when they started a family. Her mother struggled to graduate high school because she got pregnant with Aja and biological father never step up and decided to stay in the streets collecting drug money. Houston was very lucky that at age two her mother found the man of her dreams and he was said to be one of the greatest gifts god had given her. She had a very special bond with her beautiful mother she was her first child, who she had raised alone for two years with the support of her mother and grandmother. Her mother was a very strong minded independent woman
moreover, it shows us that she is like an animal that is trap in a cage suffering from the burden of not enjoying herself. Thus, lashing out at her husband while disregarding the danger she is putting her family through mentally traumatic events. As well as strains on the fact that she is not acknowledging the effects and extent of her addiction. Thus, shutting everyone out and eating herself apart. Therefore, she avoids discussing her issues with her husband on the movement to the city which might help with resolving her issue or lessen the magnitude of the stress she is going through.
Caleen Sinnette Jennings Queens Girl in the World is an bildungsroman, a coming of age story that takes place in a unique format. Queens Girl in the World is about Jacqueline Marie Butler a 12 year girl who lives on Erickson Street, Queens, New York. It’s summer 1962 and we watch her journey over the next year or so. She experiences love, conflict, ignorance, hatred, violence, and many of the experiences that can happen in the life of a preteen in the sixties as well as to any of us. The many characters depicted, the moments shared made myself and the audience experience laughter, sorrow and everything in between. Queens Girl in the World beautifully blends climatic and episodic structure by using climatic aspects such as a late plot, limited characters scenes and locales and episodic features such as multiple stories that follow a plot of theme.
This pleasure feeling was given do to unhappiness from the small, Zailckas who was not able to control herself and turned to her addiction. The self conscious Zailckas who did not allow herself to recognize happiness. Zailckas has a very low self esteem and confidence. Two of the most important things a woman struggles with while growing up and here we find the author still struggling with these problems in her adult life. Zailckas experiences a regression that keeps taking her back to her teenage years before the drinking, which demonstrates she was never able to mature. She keeps going back to that regression because it was the time in her life before the alcohol, that allowed her to believe in her own confidence. Alcohol was her self medication, she believed it helped her become herself. It gave her the confidence she did not have while being sober.
...he story with the various characters. Melinda’s acquaintance, Heather works hard at finding friends and becoming popular, but in the end she turns away from Melinda. The story is about the high school years. Many times when we are growing up we can’t wait to get there because we will be treated as adults, but the truth is the problems that come along when we are older can be difficult. The various clans of students help present the theme by showing us that there are many different types of people. The popular cheerleaders, the jocks, the geeks and those who are just trying to fit in. Melinda transforming the janitor’s closet symbolizes her hiding her feelings and Melinda’s inability to speak and tell people what happened to her. High school can be fun but unfortunately through the eyes of Melinda it was a very hard time.
In the first section of the book it starts off with a little girl named Tasha. Tasha is in the Fifth grade, and doesn’t really have many friends. It describes her dilemma with trying to fit in with all the other girls, and being “popular”, and trying to deal with a “Kid Snatcher”. The summer before school started she practiced at all the games the kid’s play, so she could be good, and be able to get them to like her. The girls at school are not very nice to her at all. Her struggle with being popular meets her up with Jashante, a held back Fifth ...
They all become a support system for each other. Precious learns to read and write, and starts journaling daily about the life that she daydreams about having for herself. She feels that her body, looks, incest, and abuse in her home with her mother have caused her life to be unpleasant. She daydreams about dating a “light” skin guy, being in movies, and having a very functional family with her two kids. A social worker by the name of Ms. Weiss helps Precious by discovering the incest and abuse in Precious’ home.
Holly Janquell is a runaway. Wendelin Van Draanan creates a twelve year old character in the story, Runaway, that is stubborn and naive enough to think she can live out in the streets alone, until she is eighteen.She has been in five foster homes for the past two years. She is in foster care because her mother dies of heroin overdose. In her current foster home, she is abused, locked in the laundry room for days without food, and gets in even more trouble if she tries to fight back. Ms.Leone, her schoolteacher, could never understand her, and in Holly’s opinion, probably does not care. No one knows what she is going through, because she never opens up to any one. Ms. Leone gives Holly a journal at school one day and tells her to write poetry and express her feelings. Holly is disgusted. But one day when she is sitting in the cold laundry room, and extremely bored, she pulls out the diary, and starts to write. When Holly can take no more of her current foster home, she runs, taking the journal with her. The journal entries in her journal, are all written as if she is talking to Ms.Leone, even though she will probably never see her again. Over the course of her journey, Holly learns to face her past through writing, and discovers a love for poetry. At some point in this book, Holly stops venting to Ms. Leone and starts talking to her, almost like an imaginary friend, and finally opens up to her.
To start off Melinda is a freshman. The first year of high school. High school is tough, but it becomes extremely tough due to the fact of her having no friends. Plus home is not any
This story is about a red headed 15 year old girl name Janie, who finds out she was kidnapped; and her biological parents are located in New Jersey. Janie is stressed and delusional as she tries to figure out the truth. Janie has a close friend Reeve, who supports her along with others. Janie eventually confronts her parents for clarification. Janie has come to terms with what happened and is ready to contact her biological parents.
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
...her to feel despair. Her misery resulted in her doing unthinkable things such us the unexplainable bond with the woman in the wallpaper.
Tracy’s identity development is heavily influenced by her new friendship with Evie from that moment on. Evie is so popular, but she makes very poor choices and Tracy follows her lead because she wants to seem just as “cool” as her new companion. This is a type of peer pressure that affects many teenagers daily.... ... middle of paper ... ...