This shows that none of the boys discriminated in their hate, but had, as the FBI put it: ´excessive hatred to-wards everybody else´. This is also shown through the columbine boys´ journal, where they rant about everything they hate (a considerably long list), as well as in Weise´s drawings. These writings and drawings show the boys´ preoccupation with anything with violence or hate themes (another sign of a possible school shooter, according to the FBI). ´ (Weise) was a talented artist, but he drew terrible, terrible scenes´ says one of his friends mothers. All 3 boys were also very interested in
Symbolism in Speak After recently becoming victim to rape, and losing every single friend you ever had, would you be eager to start your freshman year of high school? I certainly would not, and neither does the deeply troubled narrator of Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak. This novel takes us through the journey of Melinda Sordino as she struggles, and eventually recovers from the traumatic experiences she has forcefully been put through. Her best friend Rachel, or to better put it, ex best friend questions in English class, "How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did [Hawthorne] leave another book called 'Symbolism in My Books'?
Liberty has taken control of the school by the end of the first day. The schools social scene is in liberty’s hands, and the action starts to heat up. “Liberty is the kind of girl who wears a see through blouse to any party (to the delight of boys).” She does not seem to have much parental super vision. She calls Val to be “new best friend” to get Cody (Val’s brother) fall for her. But Val best friend Ryan becomes increasingly distanced with her.
We were finally released for recess and I decided to see how Scout was doing. I snuck away from the safety zone of my fifth grade peers to where the first graders were huddled. I pulled Scout away from them and asked her how her day was coming along. She was very upset about how her new teacher had been teaching them. By the way she made her teacher out to be I would’ve assumed she was the devil if I didn’t know how mellow dramatic my sister could be.
She befriended a black male student during one summer and people gossiped and spread rumors about the relationship, the price she paid was her reputation and her dad almost losing his job. As Weaver relates racial slurs and bias are not exclusively against black people; and shown in this heated image “one day in school [she] witnessed an altercation between two black girls and attempted to stop their fight; [she] was told to “mind [her] own business. We do not need you soda cracker; go back to your own kind” (222). Physical desegregation does not override the bias felt by some
Pipher argues that the wrath and destruction of the societal hurricane has always been focused on girls rather than boys, as girls experience the “short end of the stick” in terms of the sexual double standard. In the beginning of each school year at my high school, rumors would swirl about the new kid who just joined our class. Some of the rumors were positive and some of them were negative, but most of the rumors were about their sexual history. When the rumors were negative, it was always about a female student. I saw girls ridiculed and disrespected by our peers.
She has plenty of money and everyone wants to be her friend in the new school she attends. When Liberty accuses a male teacher of sexually assaulting her, the rumour’s start. Val, her new best friend, is torn between believing Liberty and trusting her old friend Ryan when it comes to the truth. Everyone wonders what is the trouble with Liberty? I really didn't like the book when I started reading it.
27 August 2012 English 1A/T-TH A Mistake too Late “In Girl’s Nude Photo, and Altered Lives,” Jan Hoffman tells the story of 14 year old Margarite’s life alterating mistake. Margarite was living with her father at the time. She had troubles at home and her grades were dropping, she no longer had a social life. Margarite decided to send a nude photo to her boyfriend Isaiah, both in the 8th grade, but shortly after they ended the relationship, Isaiah was persuaded to forward the photo to a girl once a friend of Margarite, the girl then edited the picture with a text message “ho alert” and went on to write “if you think this girl is a whore, then text this to all your friends”. She then forwards the photograph to a long list on her contacts.
Thin – Grace Bowman * “One day I wake up and someone tells me that I’m anorexic” (xi) * “Theories on anorexia nervosa pile on top one another; they do not make sense. They contradict and argue over causes and issues and blame” (xiv) * “Five: Grace goes to school. She is the first, ahead of the little brother. Gold stars, happy faces, ticked, well done!” (4) * “Ten… Sometimes in the proper school plays the teachers make her the understudy of the second lead… It makes her hurt and cry” (6) * “Eleven… How can she be popular?... Everything would be OK if they accepted her” (8) * “Eighteen… she has got glandular fever… She is not hungry and her throat is too sore to swallow so she can only eat half a piece of toast a day…
Summer Reading 2013 “Stargirl” 7) During the novel after Stargirl returns to being “Susan” Leo says that she looked magnificently, wonderfully, gloriously ordinary. Just like every other girl Mica High School. When I read this part of the novel I felt that it was unfair to Stargirl. He changed her so that the people at school would start talking to him again. But, what he didn’t realize was maybe that wasn’t the person Stargirl wanted to be.