At (name of camp), the main focus of the camp is to create a bully free zone where everyone learns how to function within a functional community. As a group working together, life can be easier and sometimes even sweeter. Finding this emotional support will benefit the children throughout their lives. Many children delight in going to summer sleep-away camps because the experience allows the children to experiment with a little bit of independence. Being away from parents and loved ones gives some children the push needed to make
Antonia is a young girl who deals with family issues and overwhelming responsibility in her one depressed parent family. On the other hand Jazz deals with trying to make her parents accept who she truly is and she also constantly rebels. While Jazz's Gothic look may be deceiving but she is completely different once you get to know her. Someone of her appearance would never be assumed to play the piano and save lives as a lifeguard. While the two girls have their own unique points they also have one thing in common and that is family issues.
Josephine Alibrandi argues with her mother about her visiting her grandmother after school, her school behaviour, her mother’s personal life, her mother’s relationship with men other than her father and her own relationship with Jacob Coote. These are all the issues that teenagers express via arguments to their parents. Another association with adolescence is peer pressure. Throughout the novel, Josephine is pressured by her friends to do something which she believes isn’t right. An example of this is the walk-a-thon where Josephine is put in charge of taking care of the back of the group but she abandons her duty as her friends convince her into skipping school to meet a celebrity.
She also decided to give more precedence to career rather than her family which in turn created a huge gap between herself and her family. As she became obsessed with her work, she began to overlook her family. In this way, the ambition for the top, the allotment of more time for work all contributed in weakening Kate’s family relationships. In the novel, Crow Lake it was also revealed how loneliness can bring two teens together through the relationship between Matt Morrison and Marie Pye. As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick.
Alyson started to argue with her sister more often than before. As a result, both Alyson and her sister stopped talking to each other and now they tried to avoid each other. After a short time, Alyson’s sister couldn’t stand her anymore so she moved out because of her. The dream that the two of them had of growing up next to each other has now come to an end because Alyson can’t reason with her anymore. Alyson’s drugs addiction kept getting worse that she started to steal her sick father’s medication.
Puberty and being a women also caused a feeling of shame for Esperanza especially when she was abused by males in two experiences, one in which an old man forcefully kissed here and the other in which a group of boys raped her. Esperanza finds away to escape her life on Mango Street with her books and papers. She dreams of living in a house of her own where she can just write. At the end three spiritual sister tell her that she will be successful in escaping but that will never change her past or we she comes from. They make her promise that she will come back to Mango street and help the neighborhood and the people in it.
As she suffers from finding a stable income and house for her family, Moody’s mother Toosweet encourages Moody to do well in school. However, her push to ensure Moody to succeed in school is only to prove to her husband Raymond’s family that her daughter is as smart as his family, not encourage Moody to attend college and fight for her rights. As a child, Moody was unaware of the oppression and inequality that African Americans had suffered. As she constantly questioned her concerns to her mother about the incidents that occurred, her mother always told her, “Just do your work like you don’t know anything” (Moody, 123). She realizes that her mother ignores the racial acts against her community and becomes alienated within her family as well as her community when she fights for her rights.
These misunderstandings escalate to the point that Maggie is kicked out of her home. The rumors that are spread about her then prevent her from returning. Maggie's situation provoked her to do things that she normally wouldn't have done in order to survive on the streets. As a young girl with a crush Maggie is totally blind to the real truth. When she first observes Pete her thoughts are clouded "Maggie perceived that here was the beau ideal of a man.
Stories Theresa L. Flores in the book The Slave Across the Street, shares her story about her being a victim of the involuntary servitude: prostitution. Flores would move from city to city consequently since her parents job required it. She couldn’t have a stable friendship since she would move many times, and in order to change that she decided to join the track team. She thought she would be able to make some new friends since she was now involved in school. She had to stay for practice afterschool, and that’s how her nightmare started.
That’s why it was so hard for her to keep the secret of the died teacher from her family. (“Sue why don’t you eat you’ve been acting strange lately?” asked sues mother. “May I be excused please?” sue said as she raced up the stairs preventing the conversation to continue.) After a while sue wanted to just tell the truth and do the right thing, but her friends who were also responsible for the murder had threatened sue with her life if she told the cops what really happened. So out of fear she kept her mouth shut for as long as she could.