How a shy gal made a couple friends
Page 1: Once upon a time there was a girl. She was known to be quiet in class, but she was also quite kind and had a heart big enough to share. She was an only child; friendships were always slow to develop and growing up, she was slightly behind on the reading and spelling phase of an adolescent. She finally caught up though, and made some decent friends during middle school who she thought were too good to be true.
Page 2: After summer her assumptions came true, she was right to worry, but she didn’t know this until later. From the last day of eighth grade and throughout the summer, she knew that her old friends wouldn 't be her friends any longer, they 'd grown apart. When High school started and she was back to being a quiet teenager who knew everyone’s name
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Page 6: The shy teenager is still in there on the back burner, she’s just comfortable enough to be herself with Lyndlee and Remi. Which is a great thing, or so her parents say, who always encouraged her to try to make friends and she somehow did. She even took the initiative this year to join six clubs; History, Archery, Camera, International, and Leo Club, with Byrd Buddies not far behind to help with widening her boundaries with the interaction of people.
Page 7: Her trio has been a roller coaster in itself, but what Lyndlee and Remi have taught her is worth not having different friends. All three are a mismatched trio that she wouldn’t trade, and she’s forever grateful that they let her join their group last year. She doesn’t know what type of person or group she’d be in right now if not for them. Senior year is approaching swiftly and she can 't wait for what lies ahead.
Back: Darien has always liked people and how their mindsets effect their life maturing. She will inspire one day to study to be a child psychologist in the near future. When she isn’t awkwardly trying to write, Darien is reading a book, watching peculiar documentaries, or lost somewhere with her
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Oates’s story teaches an extremely important lesson to young girls. This story can teach people not to be so secretive, and also to be weary of anybody that you do not know well, no matter how friendly they seem at first. These lessons are taught mostly through the way antagonist of the story, Arnold Friend, is written by the author. Arnold is a creepy, manipulative, and demanding man, but he pretends as if he is not. The author used his name, speech, appearance, and actions to show that a person is not always what they appear to
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In this Quote the author explains how she feels about the story she
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Imagine this: you are living in a discriminatory world full of people who do not understand you, and choose to judge you by your differences instead of getting to know you. If you are even the slightest bit different. The slightest distance from ordinary, you are judged. You do not get to fight for them to know you, because as soon as they place stereotypes on you. They decide who you are supposed to be.
” Life goes on in the Lee household, and eventually Lydia finds herself a sophomore in high school. Her parents push her to take advanced, rigorous courses, and although her parents are under the impression that Lydia is a happy girl at school with lots of friends and adequate grades, they are wrong. She is actually very lonely, and her friends only use her for homework. Her grades are severely slipping as well. Since Lydia does not share these feelings with her parents, they weigh her down.
In the book “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, it’s about a little girl who is pressured by her mother to become something she doesn’t want to be. Jing- mei , the daughter, is forced to become a prodigy(child actress), by her mother, and she doesn’t want to be one. In the story, Jing- meis’ mother uses allusions such as Shirley Temple to push her into becoming a prodigy. Although at first Jing- mei is excited to become a prodigy, she later realizes its something she just doesn’t enjoy doing. Consequently, the uses of allusion in the story help Jing- mei discover to not be a prodigy and that what her mother wants for her is not always important.