Through free verse, readers are taken into teenage Clare’s head. She has been training as a ballet dancer for ten years, living and breathing dance. Her goal to make it into one of the sixteen spots in the City Ballet Company, which has been a dream of her family’s since she was a little girl. However, the strain put on her body and mind threatens to burst as she tries to deal with everything surrounding her. Her best friend Rosella has taken to puking in the bathroom after class, with her mother’s encouragement; their classmate Dia has gained weight and everyone snickers that she will be kicked out any day; the girls silently compare their bodies to the others; and Clare can’t stop herself from growing into the tallest girl in class.
Hidden Message Never Been Kissed is a movie about a women, Josie Geller, who is smart but socially awkward. In high school she was the typical loser but she went on to be a copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. The editor-in-chief assigns her to report undercover at a high school to help parents become more aware of their children's lives. This sends the main character Josie back to high school, the place she hated most where she becomes the same unpopular girl she was in high school. Josie fights though the movie to be clear of her loser label and make it in with the cool crowd.
Two Kinds Summary: In the story ”Two Kinds” the main character and the narrator is a Chinese-American girl, who is in a struggle with her Chinese immigrant mother who believes “you can be anything you want to be in America”. The story kicks off with the main character’s mother wanting her to become an infant prodigy. The mother starts, in hope to make her daughter an infant prodigy, by taking her to a beauty training school, where she gets her hair cut like peter pan. The main character and her mother sits up every night reading about other infant prodigies. She then starts testing her daughter in a lot of weird ways.
At the second stage of her life, Walker is full of shame but gains academic and social success by interacting with her peers and teachers after a corrective surgery to her injured eye. In the third stage of her life, Walker, with the help of her daughter, realizes that she can succeed at whatever she wants. As Walker progresses through each stage of her life, she realizes that beauty should not be the main factor of her life. Through the first stage of recalling her life, Alice Walker shows readers the youthful innocence people usually have as children. As a child, Walker believes that she can get whatever she wants or make people like her only by being a beautiful little girl.
Spilled Salt: By Barbara Neely The short story “spilled salt”, by Barbara Neely is about a single mother, Myrna, who raised her son alone since he was six. The son, Kenny, convinced a crime. Because he raped a girl, he spent four years in prison and the story starts when he released from prison and came back home where his mother doesn’t want to live with him anymore. She doesn’t want to lose her sweet memories of the little and funny boy. She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her.
A Time For Dancing Essay A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin is a tragic story about a 16-year-old girl, Juliana who is struggling in her fight against cancer. Juliana’s and her best friend Samantha had both met when they were very young in dance class, and soon they became inseparable. Juliana and Samantha had both dreamt of becoming professional dancers however, after being diagnosed with diffuse histiocytic lymphoma, Juliana’s view on life changes. Throughout the novel Juliana endures both physical and emotional pain. However, she is not alone her friends and family are right next to her, supporting and helping her in any way possible.
Analysis: of The First Day by Edward P Jones. In the short story we hear about a girl who had her first day of school. The short story is a flashback and this quote supports my contention:” Long before I learned to be ashamed of my mother…” This shows that it’s an adult who’s having a flashback. We know it’s a girl because the mother is doing her hair and she’s wearing a dress, a boy wouldn’t have worn a dress. She’s filled with nervousness and she’s desperate being perfectly good looking.
Wendy Anderson and Wendy Thomas aka The Wendys – Petula's two best friends, cheerleaders who share the same first name and brain and do everything together. Dead Ed class – A group of dead teenagers who become Charlotte's new classmates: Prue or Prudence Shelly – The leader of the dead teenagers. She wants to move on, and thinks Charlotte is shallow and selfish for not helping her classmates. She also belittles Charlotte's obsession with popularity, as she was murdered by a popular boy on the way to a school dance. Piccolo Pam – A friendly ghost who introduces Charlotte to Dead Ed.
Child beauty pageants can be a positive influence if it’s something the child enjoys doing. Throughout the years beauty pageants have had positive effects on its participants’ lives. Participants have gained self confidence and self respect by being a part of beauty pageants. Former beauty pageant contestants have said that by being in pageants as a young child they were able to lose their shyness (“Child Beauty”). Beauty pageant participant, Kelsey Killeen said, “When I started going into pageants, it gave me so much self-confidence.” Pageant moms believe pageants are a good way to teach their daughters skills needed in life.
Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge. On the other hand, Nadia was 17 years old, her husband cut off her nose and ear while she was sleeping, she has undergone six operations and need more. Nadia said "I don't know anything about happiness". Another girl Gulsum, was kidnapped by her father, who was estranged from her mother, was forced to marry the son of her father's lover. Her husband and her mother- in- law beat her and threatened to kill