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Is Every Hanging Out Without Me Analysis

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Mindy Kaling wrote the chapter “Is Every Hanging Out Without Me? (Or, How I Made My First Real Friend)” to give a significant message about not being afraid of what others think and how they perceive others near you. To help spread her advice Kaling tells a narrative about her friendships in middle school and how she learned this lesson the hard way. She does this by introducing her friend Marvis, but the narrator and Marvis are only friends on the weekend; but on the weekdays she possess friends that are much different than Marvis. Through this entire chapter, Kaling says that “more and more times, I found that I didn’t want to do what JLMP (their initial letter in their first name) wanted to do” (4), which lays out that the group of friends

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