Tanita S. Davis's Happy Families

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Derrick Gunn Philyaw English II Honors-Period 4 29 May 2014 Happy Families, by Tanita S. Davis-Second Reflection At this point in the book Ysabel and Justin are half way done with their trip. They discover that they will be having frequent visits to the family therapist the whole spring break. Her name is Dr. Hoeing. After one visit to Dr. Hoeing’s, they go on a camping/rafting experience with their father. This helps the two meet and befriend kids in the same predicament. Their names are Bethany, Connor, and Marco. They soon get along on the rafting part of the trip. Why do the twins seem to switch moods so quickly? Throughout the book it seems like they have mood swings. They always go from happy to pissed. The anger seems to be pointed at their father most of the time. I believe that Davis thinks that when kids find out that their parents are transgender, they start to feel distant and spiteful towards them. They end their day of rafting with smiles on their faces. The next day Ysabel wakes up mad at her father while Justin feels organized. It gets worse when her dad gets her and Justin’s breakfast wrong. In the therapy session Ysabel says in anger, “It’s not my fault you can’t tell Justin and me apart.” This shows anger at a little mistake on her…show more content…
They both talk like normal people would talk, but Justin’s vocabulary exceeds Ysabel’s. This is one of the main differences between them as twins. It connects back to earlier in the book and my first reflection. It describes Ysabel as a B student and Justin as a freshman already studying for the ACTs. He uses larger variety of words to describe his feelings and settings in his speech and head. He uses words like vigorous, nordic, converse, and embroidered. He says words that most kids wouldn’t say today and that his sister rarely uses in her vocabulary. Davis wants to show the differences between the two. This is just another way of doing

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