Analysis Of Unfriended By Rachel Vail

Novels have many themes but the themes for this book are set. The first moral for this book is that being friends with just one person for a long time can cause someone to isolate themselves from others. Nell and Lydia, main characters of the book, have always been friends. Their friendship gets in the way of them creating brand new friends. An example of this is "She also said we spend so much time together that neither of us get to have other friends. She said it would be better for us to get a little space."

At first, I thought the formatting of the book was a little bizarre, but as I delved deeper into the story, I grew to appreciate the setup of the book and how it showed the eight different perspectives of each of the girls. It really lets you see all the different dimensions and perspectives of what it really meant to be the prettiest or ugliest of each grade. This was great, as it let you see how some girls chose to embrace their label with open arms and how some didn’t let the labels define them. On the other hand, I loved all the characters, but one character that really fascinated me was Bridget Honeycutt. She had me hooked on her story, from her starving herself all summer to her finally learning her lesson.

Theme is the message of the story that the author wants the reader to take away from the story. In the short story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto. The theme is don’t pretend to be someone you are not. For example, Mr.Bueller remembers his story about how he tried to impress his girlfriend by renting different cars every time they had a date. This led to him to running out of money. He pretended to be someone he was not. Victor also tried to be someone he was not by pretending to know how to speak French fluently to impress his crush, Teresa. Luckily, no one pointed out that VIctor didn’t know French, so he wasn’t embarrassed in front of the whole class, including Teresa.

Throughout the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, several topics across the novel contribute to the overall theme. From identity, conformity to bullying, the topics of Stargirl cover everything under the Mica sun. Conformity is touched after everyone in Mica Area High School is described as conformists, blending into one another. Identity is challenged by Stargirl as she breaks away from conformity. Bullying makes its debut after the kids at MAHS reject Stargirls quirky ways. Overall, the Stargirl novel puts a fresh take on the underlining theme most people aren’t true to themselves unless they are confident.

In “The Limits of Friendship” by Maria Konnikova, social media has significantly changed the way we interact with friends and family. Everybody thinks that using social media is the best way to talk to friends and family, however, in my opinion, they are wrong because it doesn’t give you the face-to-face connections we need as humans for social interaction. On the other hand, the great thing about using social media is you can connect with more people, but in a superficial kind of way. Therefore, we do not get the face-to-face interactions with our friends and family. We, the people that are addicted to social media, learn that without face-to-face conversations we wouldn’t have a normal “social” life outside of social media. The question

Maria Konnikova's essay "The Limits of Friendship," analyzes the impact of social media on close relationships, addressing the people impacted by social media use. This essay published in The New Yorker, a weekly magazine with scholarly authors, to inform the public on social media's impact on our lives. She finds that social media has created a dependency on technology and online interactions. Konnikova strives to inform that social media is decreasing close relationships, and persuades that it will impact our future. She argues on the impact of increased dependency on social media on the Dunbar number, hindering the development of future generations. Konnikova succeeds using strong logic and scientific reason as well as appealing to emotions; however, she fails to prove her credibility over the topic and instead relies on the credibility of Robin Dunbar.

In the short story “Recitatif,” by Toni Morrison, the racial identities of the characters are hidden, but she gives hints throughout the story. Through these hints, Twyla can be scene as most likely the black character and Roberta the white character. Readers can assume by how the characters are described later in the book, that they are fitted to these racial identities.

Secondly, the theme that one needs to be empathetic to a story they don't know is seen

One way the author conveys the theme is through the main character’s actions. She strives to be like an American girl and is stubbornly blind

In this book there is a girl named named Isabel “ Belly” Conklin her brother Steven Conklin, her 2 “lovers” Jeremiah Fisher and Conrad Fisher, her mother Laurel Conklin, and Susannah “Beck” Fisher who is her most favorite person in the world. It all starts when Belly, Steven and Laurel are in the car driving to Cousins beach to spend the summer with Beck and her sons like they do every summer since she was born. Belly loves to be at Cousins Beach because she feels it's where she belongs and she gets to spend it with the 2 boys she loves very much. In the beginning her and her brother and mother pull into the driveway of Susannah's beach house and Conrad

The book talks about a young boy named Lockie Leonard who moves to a new town and starts at a new high school, lockie meets a girl called Vicki and falls in love. The book does not just entertain us however and helps us learn what lockie is going through. This teaches us, as readers because the book is for kids around the age of Lockie who will go through the same thing as him. The book talks about how lockie is just about to

Junior’s discovery of identity and place within his world is a predominant theme in the novel and one with which teens can relate; however, several other young adult characteristics and developmental issues are addressed as well. Junior and his peers are experiencing a time of rapid physical, hormonal and cognitive development as are the most likely readers of the book. Like many adolescent girls, Penelope is concerned with her body appearance and popularity. She is a bulimic attempting to keep up her “pretty and smart and popular” (108) image. Junior is concerned with appearances in a more internal way - hiding his

I bought the book “Popular” without knowing much about the topic. Even though the book is mainly for girls, I think guys would find this book intriguing. Maya Van Wagenen’s story is told in this book about how she turned from an antisocial loser, to one of the most popular girls in her school. What was unsettling about this book was how poor and cruel Maya’s area was. Even an eighth grader from another school got shot at for carrying a pellet gun to school. The drug war that was going on in Maya's area really made me change the way I looked at the world, making me realize that the world isn't always in happy times. This book really did not measure up to my expectations because I thought this book was just about a girl doing random things to

beginning of the book, into a rebel teenager who has let herself be influenced by friends.

The depiction of troubled thirteen year-old Isabelle will touch a nerve with adolescent girls. In the book Isabelle is so focused on the pretty popular Ashley Barnum, she doesn’t understand how great she is, which every girl in the world can relate too. The book shows how “not” perfect Ashley Barnum is because she struggles with the same eating disorder as Isabelle. This book teaches young girls to not compete and compare them to other girls and how no body is perfect because deep down there is always something they are hiding. Overall this book is super powerful and educating and will touch the hearts of many young girls. A weakness of this book is how Ashley Barnum never got better. In the book when Isabelle and Ashley become friends, Isabelle was the only one who was strong enough to fight her eating disorder. Ashley was still stuck with the struggle of her parents divorce. Having Ashley get better would of helped show girls that everyone can overcome an eating disorder or something difficult in their life because just having Isabelle get better might show girls how not everyone can overcome difficult problems. Girls might also relate to Ashley not Isabelle because she was still the broken girl in the book, which many girls in the world believe they are broken or are the only people who will never get