Tuesday Of The Other June By Adam Bagdesarian

Change occurs in everyday life. Yet, only smart people accept it. The same applies to June from Tuesday of The other June by Norma Fox Mazer and the narrator from The Fight by Adam Bagdesarian. In Tuesday of the other June, June is a weak and defenseless girl who ends up being the next victim of a bully that is also named June from her swimming class. Fortunately at end of the story, she finds her confidence and stands up to the bad June. In the fight, the arrogant main character values his popularity more than reality. Due to his ignorance he ends up accepting to fight with Mike Ditcher from school, even though he knows that he will lose. At the end, he learns his lesson by getting beat up and realizing that being popular is not the only key to life. In both these short stories, the protagonists experience a drastic change making them dynamic characters.

The narrator from the story The Fight experiences a big change in personality after his fight with Mike Dichter.

On page 62 it says “In those days I had a reputation of toughness to maintain so I told him that he better watch out” This quote tells everyone that he is trying to cover up who he really is. He is so obsessed with being popular that he doesn’t show everyone the weakling inside of him. But soon all of this will change. On page 71 of this story it says “ So I gave: I gave him the fight, the love notes, the phone calls, the envy, the adulation, and the arrogant hull of who I had been.” This quote shows the reader that by the end he realizes that popularity is not life, and that if you don’t accept reality, you will never achieve anything. Although the fight was painful for the protagonist, the lesson the he learned was worth fighting

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The leading character June, from Tuesday Of the other June evolves into a different person after being bullied through the story. On page 52 the writer states “She was sprawled on the stoop of a pink house, lounging back on her elbows, legs outspread, her jaws working on a wad of gum. I slid down into my seat but I was sure she had seen me.” This quote tells the reader that the good June was so helpless and scared that she was terrified if the bad June even set eyes on her. That’s how much the bully had terrorized her. At the end of the story on page 54 June says “Oh no! No. No. No. No more.” This quote shouts out that June had finally changed. She let lose all the confidence that was building up inside her and firmly stood up to the other June. Even though the problem started because of a small cause, it caused a very big problem.
In the short stories, Tuesday Of the Other June by Norma Fox Mazer and The Fight by Adam Bagdesarian, the leading heroes both experience a very big change in personality. Both characters change but in very different ways making them potential dynamic characters. This proves that change is very common in life and in stories.