Someone Like You Halley Character Traits

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Bryanna Schwartz, K23
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Character Essay
Friendship. Halley, from “Someone Like You” by Sarah Dessen, is Friendship. Halley is brave. Halley is strong and helpful for her friend Scarlett. Halley is friendship because she helps her friend Scarlett when she is sad, sick or just needs it. I think that Halley is very respectful to Scarlett and I hope to be as caring to my friends as Halley is to hers. Halley has many other traits to her. Helpful, caring are just two personal traits she has, plus much more. I think the one she is most is friendship, loving because she helps her friend Scarlett when she needs it most. I think Halley has lots of traits because she has a fun personality. I think what makes Halley different is that she is quieter, …show more content…

She has a best friend, and that is all she needs. Until her grandma died, which in the book Halley had said “I’d always been close to my Grandma Halley”, her friend is pregnant, she gets a boyfriend, and a boy that her friend liked died, which was implausible. Halley never thought her life would end up like this. It felt like she walked through a bad luck portal. She had all these things happen to her, she made bad choices, lied to her parents, snuck out at night, she got into a car accident with her boyfriend driving and now is helping her friend deliver a baby, even when Scarlett almost capitulated. All these things are going through her head, until she dumps her boyfriend and her friend delivers the baby, everything has changed. Her life is still different, but she still has her best friend and her friends baby to count on when she needs them the most. In conclusion, I think that Halley is mostly friendship because of how loyal and thoughtful she is to Scarlett. Scarlett is also very respectful to Halley, because she is her friend, but is also friendship because she cares about Halley and doesn’t want anything to happen to her. Halley and Scarlett are both the word friendship because how caring they are to each other. You could describe Halley in many different words, but the one I think of most is

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