Sabrina, a 15 years old, freshman girl in East High of Cali has never opened up to anyone in her entire life, even her parents. Sabrina, being an only child, never thought that anyone else could ever felt the loneliness she has felt being in a troubled little family. Everyday in school, these so-called “Popular Kids” always give Sabrina a hard time. Every time Sabrina walks in a room, everyone stares and whispers unpleasant things behind her back. These rumors about her parents has made Sabrina’s life miserable. Her dad, being a drug addict and her mom, being an alcoholic ‘ruined’ Sabrina’s reputation of being just a lonely girl, where nobody knew her or talked to her and she was fine with it. A few days making an appearance in her new school, …show more content…
After that mini conversation with each other, Nate has been coming up to Sabrina and talking to her more and more everyday. They both bonded over dancing, every single day after school, they get together and go in an empty parking lot and dance their problems away. After a while, Sabrina started to have feelings for Nate, the next time they saw each other, they looked into each other’s eyes and they both knew that they have feelings for eachother. “Hey..um..Sabrina, can I tell you something?’ Nate asked and Sabrina nodded, “I never thought I would feel this way about anyone but.. I really like you!” Sabrina blushed red as a cherry and said, “Yeah, never in my life have I ever trusted someone like you. I like you too..” Nate and Sabrina started dating. Nate helped Sabrina ignore other people around her that never cared for her. After a couple weeks, Sabrina planned an anniversary date for her and Nate, but when that day came, Sabrina had been stood up and Nate never answered his phone. A few days passed and Nate haven’t texted or called Sabrina, she realized that Nate couldn’t be trusted. She cried her heart out because she couldn’t handle the thought of the person she trusted the most, betrayed
She quickly finished cleaning and went to bed to get some rest, as she lay in bed she turned on her phone and could see that her social media accounts were blowing up with the search for the mystery senior that had Tristan going crazy. The minute that he posted a tweet that said he had her cap almost everyone in the entire school had replied saying it was theirs. This made Armani laugh and thinking nothing of it she replied with a comment “wonder who’s” with that she went to
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.
Growing up Mary Karr didn't have a “stable” childhood. Her parents Pete and Charlie had many obstacles they faced throughout their life. Pete, who worked at a graveyard at the oil refinery was an alcoholic. He would drink every day, whether it was at home or with the liars club, he always had a drink in his hand. Charlie, who dealt with many illnesses such as an anxiety disorder and being a hypochondriac was not the best role model in Mary and Lecia life. At only 2 years old, Charlie almost died of pneumonia. After surviving that, she wasn't a normal kid, she had many issues.
The short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, focuses around the main character Rachel as an insecure developing girl who lacks the experience to handle everyday encounters. Rachel, an eleven year old girl truly encapsulates the thoughts that are present within an adolescent. The lack of confidence in herself, excessive fear of being judged, and ideas of growing up are ideals that are relevant within each and every one of us. The reader is able to relate to Rachel because her feelings and experiences that are described by the author are similar to what most people have been through and are currently experiencing. The characterization of Rachel is expressed through the author’s usage of point of view, imagery, and repetition.
She’s just so weak. If she would stand up for herself, no one would bother her. It’s her own fault that people pick on her, she needs to toughen up. “Shape of a Girl” by Joan MacLeod, introduces us to a group of girls trying to “fit in” in their own culture, “school.” This story goes into detail about what girls will do to feel accepted and powerful, and the way they deal with everyday occurrences in their “world.” Most of the story is through the eyes of one particular character, we learn about her inner struggles and how she deals with her own morals. This story uses verisimilitude, and irony to help us understand the strife of children just wanting to fit in and feel normal in schools today.
“I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees” (11). Adolescence brings on many changes in one’s life and is the time when a person is shaped into who they will be forever. Sandra Cisneros shows the experiences one may go through while growing up through this book. A child, especially during their adolescence, is a very moldable person. The situations they go through and their position socially can greatly impact who they become. Cisneros touches on the importance of friends, life at home, and experiences in the real world that can influence a child’s life. In The House On Mango Street, Cisneros uses strong descriptive words, first person point of view, and suspense
High school sophomore, Samantha Baker woke up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, hoping for an overnight transformation. While on the phone with her best friend, she stares at herself in the mirror, praying she had grown a few inches and a set of boobs. Much to avail, she has not and her day goes on just like every other one. She has the added pressure of being a bridesmaid for her older sister Ginny’s wedding, the next day. After being felt up by Grandmother Baker, Samantha deals with the ridicule and torment of her annoying little brother and takes the bus to school. During her study hall class she takes a silly quiz another friend had given her. The quiz ends up in the hands of her crush, Jake Ryan! The anxiety sets in.
In Phoebe’s Prince story, for instance, no amount of finger pointing or apportioning blame can address the underlying issues. For one, she was an emotionally disturbed girl who had tried to end her life before she got bullied in school. Apart from her depressive state, Phoebe had minimal communication of her challenges in school with her parents or any authority figures (teachers or even the school principal) in her life. These gaps are what are highlighted in this paper and hopefully when fully grasped can help to minimize the gaps that exist in our social
No one would talk to her, recess was spent in anguish, and she would find garbage and spoiled food in her book bag. As she progressed into 5th grade, some of the social atmosphere began to shift in subtle but profound ways. Being accepted into a clique is all that matters. Instead of being admired for class participation, as in earlier years she was laughed at and labeled as “teacher’s pet.” She said the rules were simple “shun or be shunned—if you weren’t willing to go along with the crowd, you would become the reject.”
When life becomes overwhelming during adolescence, a child’s first response is to withdraw from the confinement of what is considered socially correct. Individuality then replaces the desire to meet social expectations, and thus the spiral into social non-conformity begins. During the course of Susanna’s high school career, she is different from the other kids. Susanna:
Pat is a round character with many problems about himself. He became someone who gets easily angered, and whenever he hears their wedding song, he gets crazy and hard to control. The event that triggered his bipolar issue is when his wife cheated on him with another teacher, that is where he almost killed the teacher and Nikki filed a restraining order against him. That is where he knew that he was an undiagnosed bipolar, and after he was put on a mental institute for rehabilitation, medications, and therapy. After eight months, he got out of the hospital. He lost weight and begin to change his personality. Pat has a theory in which when he becomes physically fit and is finally able to control his emotions, he will have a happy ending. He expects that his happy ending is to be together with Nikki and get his old teaching job back. He tries to read the books his ex-wife teaches for her syllabus. One book he read is one from Hemingway called A Farewell to Arms. His emotions triggered and woke his parents up 4 o'clock in the morning. He started ranting about how bad the ending of the book is and would not apologize to his parents. This was his first triggered mood swing after he got out of the hospital. Pat turns overly violent when he hears his wedding song, it kept reminding him of the shower incident. When Pat finally meets Tiffany, the events took a quick turn. Pat's therapy doctor told him that Tiffany can be a way for him to communicate with Nikki through letters. At first, he thought that she's just some crazy "slut", but the two have gotten intimate as they spend more time for their dance practice. They go jogging together and because of Tiffany, Pat was able to keep calm when he heard his wedding song
However, when she turned 16 her aunts, Hilda and Zelda, revealed that she came from a long line of witches and would start developing her own magical powers. As mentioned earlier, Sabrina did not reflect real practicing witches of modern society, but the show did use magic as a way of approaching a feminist perspective on life. Sabrina’s character has a gender-blind view of the world, with her aunts as supportive role models, both wonderful examples of women who do not fit the traditional gender roles themselves. These sisters were very career oriented, Hilda an entrepreneur and small business owner and Zelda a scientists and professor, were in no hurry to be married off, and frequently voice that women are powerful, intelligent, and should never be denied the right to use all their power (whether magical or not) to its full potential. The tone of the show is best described in a paper by two female professors, projansky and Vande Berg that analyzed the show’s feminist features, “The show criticizes gender and other discrimination, emphasizes acceptance and equality on the basis of both gender and sexuality, and portrays Sabrina 's aunts as self-confident, independent and talented, and Sabrina as following their model” (ref). While these are all great things, the authors continue on to highlight aspects that actually reinforce culturally defined
Before Miles went to his new school his father said, “No drugs. No drinking. No cigarettes.” (Green 10 pdf) Miles’ father warned him very heavily about not doing drugs, however, he did drugs in high school before. When Miles goes to high school, he gets lost in the world of peer pressure and he end up doing drugs, drinking alcohol and smoking. In the real world, many high school students tend to fall into the traps of peer pressure and they end up drinking and doing drugs illegally. This story captures the real life perspective of high school with peer pressure, stress and troubles, instead of the fake, “all smiles” perspective of high school that some movies, such as High School Musical, portrays. Additionally, the main character, Alaska, relates to the world because she is a girl that lives a hard life and is depressed on the inside, yet she still manages to have a smile on her face. Many people in the world are going through very hard times, however, they still manage to be happy or they try to give the appearance that they’re happy. Personally, I can relate to Alaska Young’s situation, after losing my grandma and uncle to illness a couple of months ago, I am faced with tremendous amounts of depression and deep sadness. However, on the outside, I tend to have a smile on my face and I don’t show others how I truly feel deep down on the inside. Alaska does this for a while and she slowly
The first day of school started and Kandy was in 10th grade. Her new clothes got her a lot of attention, everyone complimented her about how they loved what she was wearing. That was the only thing she was confident about, her clothes. She knew that her style was awesome. Her best friend, Ang, was in two of her classes. Kandy thought that this would be the best year of school because she never had any friends in any of her classes before. Turns out they both had the same lunch. They would talk up by the road, on the sidewalk, to Speedway everyday for lunch. For some reason people would always honk at them and one day a girl yelled out the window and called them sluts. Obviously because she was jealous. The first few days of school went by fast, then kept getting slower and slower.
Jared has attended a summer camp for the past four years. During these four years at camp there are at least ten girls who fall for him. Any other guy would see this as great, but not Jared. For three out of the four years he was at camp Jared had Brittany waiting on him at home. Brittany and Jared adored each other. But this summer would be different.