Amanda Bear: A Short Story

“I eat celery, I drink only water or diet coke, I do three hours on the Stairmaster everyday,” she said. “But despite

Janine snorts in laughter. “Train your body to burn fat?! Like it doesn’t know how already? Come on! If you’re gaining weight, it’s because you’re taking in more calories than you’re burning up. Everyone knows that. A calorie is a calorie. It’s just a measure of energy in your food. If you want to lose weight, what you have to do is either cut back on the calories you take in or exercise to burn up calories—or both. But why

Elizabeth nodded in agreement and then shifted the conversation to news about mutual friends during the rest of the meal. All the talk about diet and calories was making her feel depressed. “That was good,” Charonda observed as they got up to leave. Elizabeth complained. “Yeah. You know, I wish I had as high a metabolic rate as you. Then I could enjoy food like you do. We eat about the same amount but I’m so much bigger than you. I always feel guilty after I’ve eaten something that I really love.”

She eats healthy exercises but there’s no change in her weight. There are 2 out of 3 Americans that are overweight and obese the documentary Fed Up states. Researchers think that obesity is a form of cancer. People are overweight because of things that happen in our country. Well to me living the country that we do we’re very unhealthy were a very fat country we have fast food places everywhere. For an example In- N- out and Mcdonalds, are super unhealthy. Although there’s some healthy places out there so we think but it’s more easier to go and get food from the fast food places because a burger is a dollar a fry's are a dollar. However on the other hand we have healthy stores out there but it’s expensive to eat and perpetuate buying the foods. Because if you really think about it caucasian people are the majority of people who buys the healthy food because they have the money to do so. Growing up not being the riches but still having money to provide for everyone in the house and getting food stamps and wic vouchers to provide milk, cereal, cheese, and eggs and having a EBT (eating better today) card. It’s still hard to get healthy foods because you're only limited to some stores and not all the healthy stores you can use your EBT cards at. I think that at the end of the day it is the people's fault but it’s also the government's fault because they wouldn’t have to go through what

On her head, she donned a short, black, and slick bob. She cut her hair that way in order to look classy, even only at certain angles. This morning, it was a struggle to keep the stray hairs in place, so she skipped taking a selfie. She had many times proudly called herself ugly in front of her friends, but can't stand the ugliness she was seeing in her reflection. She wanted to be paler, skinnier, taller...

Williams admitted to being on a diet her whole life, but she’s found the most success now because she’s learned to take her time.

Lacey Steele has a very low self-esteem, and all she wants is the approval of her family and friends. Lacey believes if only she was thinner people would accept her for who she really is. After a hard intense summer of working out nonstop the weight still wasn't coming off so she decided with the help of her friend Ashley, that they were going to start a secret club called Future Goddess Girls Club. Ashley and Lacey's club rules were very simply they could track what they eat and would eat very small portions, The weight came off so fast and the thinner they wanted to be the less and less food they ate until they weren't eating anything for days. As they became thinner the more positive attention they got until one day Lacey got a call from

From the beginning to the end, Amanda is a character that is "clinging frantically to another time and place" (Williams 18). She prefers to hide behind the illusion of how she used to be in the past instead of realizing what's in her present day reality; for example, "Nonsense, Laura, I've told you never, never to use that word. Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect – hardly noticeable, even!" (Williams 17). This quote explains how Amanda has not come to realize the disability that Laura has, and instead she hides the reality with the illusion of making herself think that Laura is not different and has a perfect appearance just like society says a person needs to have. Amanda has the idea that living in the past is a better way of living than in the present with reality, which is represented in her dress that she wore when she was younger and still wears to this day. however, Amanda has not come to the realization that the dress compared to the past, can't be repeated and isn't suitable for the present. Amanda expresses the theme of illusion versus reality since she uses the illusion of the gay deceivers that enhance your appearance and her past to mask the reality that is her life and not allow her to come face to face to what the real problem is at hand. The quote, "Women come in lots of

“Amanda was lost for words. “Wow,” was all she could manage. Jenna and Margaret laughed. Amanda shook her head and said, “I have to tell my mom this.”

It was 7:05 and she had just finished getting dressed; right on time. She stepped in the all-white bathroom, opened one out of many cupboards, and took

Running at my fastest pace trying to catch my breath, I loose grasp of Abby. Looking around the bright green lawn for a brown skinned Chihuahua with light yellow/brown spots on her ears and face felt like hours. After dodging what felt like thousands of kids and adults, Abby was spotted standing near the silver rails leading to the water with the Manhattan Skyline. She was barking and chasing pigeons; therefore, almost causing her to go missing. Finally, I grabbed her and put her bright pink harness on. Searching for a 7 lbs. small Chihuahua through the Long Island City Piers felt like an eternity, but it was just 5 minutes of my life. Memories such as worrying for a loose dog running around to spending quality time with my loved ones

Oh boy, you’ll never guess what kind of story that goddam sonuvabitch Stradlater told me. It has to be the phoniest story I’ve ever heard, and I’m actually not lying this time. Anyways, you’re not going to believe me so I don’t even know why I’m telling ya, but here it is, the same goddam thing that Stradlater told me. I suppose I should start at the beginning of the story, it only makes sense. Anyways, he started the story by telling me about some phony girl named Goldilocks or something and these three very sore bears who lived in a small house in the middle of the forest. I hate when I hear about others who are poorer than me. It bothers me when others don’t have the same advantages as me. It depresses the hell out of me, it really does. Anyways, you wouldn 't think anybody would be living way the hell out in the goddam forest, but here they were. Honestly who still believes in this fairy tale crap anymore. Allie, my younger brother you know the one I told you about. He used to love hearing fairy tales and stories, he really did. Me, not so much especially the crumby ones. It bothers me when parents tell their kids these stories with phony characters and phony plots, if you want to know the truth. The characters are always so goddam crumby, they’re worst than the actors in movies. They never act like real people, but I guess that’s why they’re called fairy tales.

Amanda seems to trust that her little girl is the main person who can really beat the test, and that is through the improvement of personal strength and the will to overcome. She is determined, and the little girl feels some way or another forced to live and act in like manner. She tries, however it is evident that the disfigurement is turned out to be a crash. Amanda craving is appeared in the sort of the world she looks to escape to. Amanda 's speech is caught up to speed in the improbable universe of man of honor callers and servants. Her dialect is reminiscent of somewhere else and time not the present (Williams and Kushner, 2011).

Amanda truly wants to live her life though her children life at any cost. Just like any parent Amanda wants to have her children succeed in life. She truly wants her children to go on and enjoy their life and I believe that she feels disappointed because she can’t give them what they need to survive the rest of their life’s because she isn’t financially stable enough for this. Since she can’t give them what they need, she pushes them to

McKenna was at the hospital and it was all her fault- and nothing her friends could say would make it better.” (Delinsky, 18)