Bianca Piper is a smart girl with personality, cynical and funny, seeing herself presumably the way others view her: as the odd one out, less beautiful than her friends. She hangs out with her best friends, often at a trendy dance club where she talks with the bartender, watching the clock and drinking Cokes while her friends dance. It's rarely a problem for her to find herself the center of attention for anyone looking for a date, and she's usually in a hurry to get Jessica and Casey to leave. But once in a blue moon, some unlucky fellow will saunter over and discover, unhappily, that Bianca is anything but truly available. Then one night, that guy turns out to be Wesley Rush, a gorgeous young man from school, and Bianca finds out she's "the DUFF": the Designated Ugly Fat Friend --- because Wesley tells her so. …show more content…
He'd sleep with almost anything and gets away with his notorious reputation, while his one-night-stands are not so lucky. You wonder if Wesley's past dates still feel they enjoyed themselves when he moves on. He's obviously enjoying himself and saves his most seductive speeches for the freshmen class. It seems odd to Bianca that she's one of the few in the school who hates him enough to tell him no. Bianca's thoughts: Wesley is "kind of hot. Maybe if you could put him on mute...and cut off his hands...maybe --- just maybe --- he'd be tolerable then." But privately, she's not so different from the others, confessing only to herself that he's gorgeous. But of course that sentiment is only physical. How great could he really
Tyler, a resident of Lancaster, Washington, lives with his hippie mother, Jasmine, and two siblings, Daisy and Mark. In search for excitement, he plans to take a summer vacation backpacking through Europe. Before his trip, he had a very comfortable relationship with Anna-Louise, a down to earth and very reserved girl attending the same college. However, in Europe, Tyler meets a French girl named Stephanie, who is very exotic and exciting to him and was the complete opposite of Anna-Louise. When Stephanie comes to visit Tyler in Lancaster, Anna-Louise learns of the brief affair Tyler and Stephanie had in Europe. Tyler then ends his relationship with Anna-Louise and moves to California with Stephanie.
Blake was the valedictorian of her class and had early admission to Stanford her dream college. Shannon on the other hand wasn’t doing as hot. With very absent parents she spent a lot of her time partying and spending money profusely on expensive clothes.
One of the first characters you meet in the novel is Georgina. Georgina is Susanna’s roommate and she suffers from depression. She is very compassionate and has a serious relationship with wade, another patient at the hospital. Georgina shows no obvious signs of illness until Kaysen pours scalding hot caramel onto her hand and she doesn’t respond at all.
In the book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Charlotte Doyle is charged with murder and found guilty. People influence us daily, and in Charlotte’s case the people who influenced her made her stronger. There are three examples of her strength in the book. First, in a terrible storm Charlotte went out onto the bowsprit and cut the sails free. Second, Charlotte whipped the captain of the Seahawk, Captain Jaggery. And third, Charlotte joined the crew. Charlotte became a strong leader as you can tell.
Miss Desjardin, still incensed over the locker room incident and ashamed at her initial disgust with Carrie, wants all the girls who made fun of Carrie suspended and banned from attending the school prom, but the principal instead punishes the girls by giving them several detentions. When Chris, after an altercation with Miss Desjardin, refuses to appear for the detention, she is suspended and barred from the prom and tries to get her fat...
Melinda Sordino started off her high school experience like an outcast. She didn’t have any friends and she just expected it to stay that way. All Melinda wanted was to tell her best friend what really happened, but the closest she got to a friend was Heather from Ohio. She became depressed not only from what happened but also from being stuck in the tiny town of Syracuse, New York. She is going through her freshman year acting like nothing ever happened. She spends almost the entire year mute because she thinks no one will want to hear what she has to say. Melinda struggles with trying to find her voice the entire book. It’s not until the end that she realizes how much she’s dying to say, and what she has been missing all this time. She somehow
Your response for week three was a pleasure to read. I agree with your opinion, in which Twyla and Roberta became friends despite their differences, because there was a lack of community among the other girls. Throughout the story of Twyla and Roberta’s friendship, I believe the main idea Morrison wanted to reveal were the racial issues present during the Civil rights movements. The issues present throughout 1954-1968 included segregation in regards to race and religion.
During 6th grade english class Will Price is partnered up with a girl he never thought he’d talk to named Sarah Miller. Sarah is a quiet girl but as Will and her start to hangout because of this project they slowly start to become best friends. Will and Sarah become close, so close that it’s weird to even say one’s name without the other’s.
A Character Analysis of Kate from Frances O’Roark Dowell’s The Kind of Friends We Used To Be
Devon and Jackie had gone to college together, but they never really began dating until the spring of their senior year. “We were really good friends, but we hadn’t been dating that long when we moved together to the Cape. About 2 months later we decided to move to British Columbia”, explained Jackie with the biggest smile on her face. At 22, they both had enough money saved up from working that they could take this risk of moving away from home, across the country. It was that moment in their lives where they knew they could be adventurous and try something new.
Don’t you just hate it when you finish a book, and you get all excited to watch the movie, but the movie turns out to be completely different from what you expect? It's almost impossible to find a movie that is completely alike to its book and it's usually undeniable that the book is better than its movie adaptation. Take The DUFF by Kody Keplinger for an example. It follows a girl called Bianca who is the DUFF of her friends. The DUFF or the Designated Ugly Fat Friend is the friend in the group who doesn’t look as good as the others and, therefore, makes them appear more attractive. Wesley Rush (aka the “womanizer, and the person who Bianca thought she hated the most), explains to her that she is the DUFF of her friends. Needless to say, this
In the breathtaking book, Speak, by Laurie Hales Anderson, she gives insight into the ups and downs of high school in the eyes of her main character, Melinda. More specifically, Anderson focuses on one down fall, which happens primarily through Melinda “[Going] to [an] end-of the summer party, with beer, seniors, and music” and getting raped (Anderson, 133). While rape victims should tell their story, Anderson rejects the significance of having Melinda talk of her case as a way of showing the consequence of holding your tongue. Efficiently, as a result of her not speaking of her assault at the party, it causes her to go through an important change from the beginning of the novel, to the ending of the novel. According
In The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, a character named Mary Ann is introduced as the girlfriend of Vietnam soldier Mark Fossie. Even more so than the other American soldiers in Vietnam, Mary Ann is the embodiment of an outsider, in some sense, just like the soldiers. She is also the representation of American naivety in the Vietnam War. She does not belong there, and her story accentuates what happens when someone’s surroundings affect him or her. She arrives to Vietnam as Mark Fossie’s girlfriend, and she is the only tangible example of love in the novel. Mary Ann gets there dressed in her pink sweater and her white culottes, with a fresh face and a very curious personality. She wants to know about everything. She is the perfect representation
Being American means standing up for what you believe in. Jane Pittman was the epitome of what it means to be an American. In The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines, a black woman named Jane Pittman describes her life, focusing on what it was like being a freed slave in post civil war America. To me, being American means being persevering, hard working, and hopeful. Miss Pittman personifies these three traits and her story demonstrates how they played critical roles in her life.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play written by Oscar Wilde during the Victorian era. It is a farcical comedy in which the main characters live and maintain a fictional persona to escape their responsibilities. To which Oscar Wilde uses secondary characters within the play such as Lady Bracknell to humorously make her the tool of the conflict and much of the satire. She is the first and foremost a symbol of Victorian earnests and the unhappiness it brings as a result. Lady Bracknell was specially designed to represent Wilde’s opinion of the upper Victorian class repressiveness and traditional negativity. Hence minor characters such as Lady Bracknell play essential roles as they help both the plot and support the themes with assistance