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Summary Of Popularity By Adam Bagdasarian

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In the short story “Popularity” by Adam Bagdasarian, the narrator had an immense desire to be popular. Along with the Allan twins, Allen Gold and Allen Shipman, he spent his recess studying the grass, looking for four-leaf clovers, so that they could wish to be popular, however, the narrator decides to go over to the popular kids to try to get noticed, however, it doesn’t work. Later in the story, he did get noticed by another kid, who makes fun of him, but in the end, he makes a joke about the same kid in front of the popular kids, which causes him to become noticed. The narrator is a dynamic character who started off as an unpopular boy who had no friends, to a boy that was busy every weekend and had more friends then he knew what to …show more content…

When the main character was picking four-leaf clovers at the beginning of the story, he described his friends as, “...equally unpopular acquaintances…” (Page 43) that he abided alongside. This is when the narrator describes his desire to be popular and how he had been seeking for his lucky charm. The text states, “We had been looking for four-leaf clovers every school day for six months. And each of us knew exactly what he would do if he ever found one: he would hold the lucky clover tight in his hand close his eyes, and wish he was so popular that he would never have to spend time with the other two again.” (Page 44) This quotation from the story displays how much he was longing to be the “cream of the crop” and a favored boy who had many, many friends. The narrator extolled the virtue of the most popular boy in the school, and just adored them greatly. The text says, “Sean Owens was the best student in the fourth grade. He was also one of the humblest, handsomest, strongest, fastest, most clear-thinking ten-year-olds that God ever placed on the face of the earth. Sean Owens could run the fifty-yard dash in six seconds, hit a baseball two hundred feet, and throw a football forty yards.”, as well as, “I gazed at Sean and the rest of the popular boys in bewildered admiration.” (Page

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