Book Review: Figuring Out Frances

The first friends I made went to church with me. Then I realized we went to school together also. I liked her, but sadly we split ways also. I went to the Early College, she went to the high school. I enjoyed the days we spent together in middle school. I made more friends and spent the summer with them. Before I knew it, I got a call from my older cousin, saying he was in the Air Force, and was moving to Montana. Tears streamed down my face, for he was an older brother to me. I was going to miss him the

In this section, Jeannette Walls starts off, in the present time by telling the readers about her seeing her mom on the street, that she hasn’t seen in a long time. Jeannette uses emotional words like blustering and fretted to show that seeing her mom was an emotional time. Later in the section, she goes way back into her life to when she was three years old and when her family and her was living in the desert. She started off telling a story of when she was on fire. This story was intense, it was really dramatic on her parents part, her dad was screaming at her and the doctor a lot. Then she talked about when they moved to Las Vegas, her family lived in a motel room, which didn’t last long, they had to leave Vegas in a rush, because her dad was cheating in blackjack and the dealer found out. The last story in the section is where her family drove to San Francisco and stayed in another motel. One night her dad was at the bar, across the street. He left Jeannette and her three other siblings in the room. Jeannette got bored so she decided to play with fire and that let to a big disaster resulting in the whole hotel burning down.

“He [Jeannette’s father, Rex] will not keep me out of harm’s way, he will put me in harm’s way and I have to find a way to remove myself from the situation.” (Diversity Connection). I feel like this quote, from Jeannette, came t directly from the situation where Rex took her out to the bar to help him earn money for alcohol, but yet she still doesn’t see herself as a victim. Even though Jeannette Walls was the victim of sexual abuse at a very young age, she tries to recreate the freedom from her childhood into her adult life, But in her younger years where she has no occupational activities, no nurturing, no money and no friends to turn to, it proves to be very hard to maintain.

Journal: I was always the innocent one. These two girls always wanted me to be on one of their side and against the other. There friendship was on and off. One girl would pull me away from the other. It was like their friendship was a competition. They were each other's rivals. Yet they are still friends up to this day.

In The Lais of Marie de France, the prevalent themes of betrayal, vanity, and shame are evident all throughout the tale of Bisclavret. Even though Bisclavret assumes the form of a werewolf, he still remains a better human being than his wife, due to the presence of shame and inner beauty in his being, which is lacking in his wife. Bisclavret’s wife concerns herself with external appearances and uses hers’ to her advantage, while Bisclavret learns to control his beastly nature, despite transforming into a werewolf. The way in which Bisclavret chooses to attack his wife mirrors the major themes of betrayal and vanity present throughout the work. To begin, immediately after Bisclavret’s wife learns her husband’s secret of transforming into

“Bride of New France”, written by Suzanne Desrochers, was a historical fiction novel about minority women of France facing the brutal times in the 17th Century.

Some major event where when my uncle was born because she was 4 and didn't want another brother. she felt that way for two years until she got a sister when she became really happy because she had a sister. When she was almost nine, she had to move to Winthrop, Iowa were Heidi had to make new friends which she did and she lived there until collage. Towards the end of joiner high, Heidi's friends left to a different state. She would still contact them in way's, but she made new friends.

Edwidge Danticat’s, Claire of the Sea Light, creates a world that is rich of life and death with people who are ultimately connected through the events of their life in a small community. The titular character of her book is the central focus of her story within stories. Claire Limye Lanme is the little girl whose very being sheds light on those stories. She has lost something that she could never get back. She’s a daughter without her mother. So another mother wants her; Gaelle--a mother without a daughter. The powerful relationship between mother and daughter has an effect ranging from their health and self-esteem above all other relationships. So what happens when a daughter and mother don not have each other? Danticat answers this question as she portrays how Claire and Gaelle survive with their loss.

Are you in highschool and are going through a rough time. Than you could relate to the book Speak. Speak is about a girl going into highschool with no friends. Not even her friend from junior high, but why.

At the end of my first grade year, I moved away from the small, rural town near Vienna where I had lived since I was born. On my first day of school at Lincoln Elementary, I quickly made friends with two girls in my class named Pam and Kelly. Pam and Kelly introduced me to their group of friends that were all in our second grade class. For the rest of the school year, this group of friends was who I played on the playground with everyday and talked to in the classroom. After a great first year of school in Marion, the time came for my third grade year. Every year at Lincoln, there is a day that is close to the beginning of the school year where the students can come to the school to meet their new teacher and look at the class list to see which of their friends is in their class. On that morning, I went to Lincoln to find out who my new teacher was. To my dismay, I found out that all of my friends from second grade had a different teacher than I did. After finding out that I was not in class with any of my friends, I knew that I would have to find a new friend to talk to in my third grade class in addition to having all of my friends from second grade. At the beginning of my third grade year, I hung out with two friends I met named Phyllis and Erin. As the year progressed, I started to hang out with Angela who would soon become one of my best

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

I started making new friends, such as Veronica Cadieu, and decided to give my fourth grade love another shot. Fifth grade was full of drama, and there was no time for a serious relationship so that did not last long. Before I knew it, 6th grade was approaching! At this time my best friend was Sydney Whitten and an editing app called Picnic. This was the year I really started to focus on my grades and try to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. A friend of mine, Luke Lockart, and I shared the same career path, or so we thought, and went a little to overboard with planning our futures. We made business cards and slogans, mine was Kerstan Troyer the American Lawyer, and we even planned to live in New York together and start a business. 7th grade is a time I am not the fondest of. This is when I became boy crazy. Especially over one boy who will remain unmentioned. Also, this was the year I got to play on my first school basketball team! I loved basketball and all the best friends I made along with the

This book, "You and Me and the Space In Between", by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, is a great book that I definitely recommend. This book really helps give me an idea about what high school life may be like, the type of people there are in this world, and some good relationship advice. How she talks about her thoughts, good or bad, it makes it more enjoyable and exciting. I love reading how Alice wants to do and be more than she is and how she attempts to pursue her goals. The way she deals with her problems and the information she gives us about what the pros and cons of her situations are. She really helps to give readers hope that sometimes when you think you are at your breaking point you can always get through it, especially with the help of

Rosen Shingle Creek is an independent, privately owned hotel located in Orlando, Florida. Rosen Shingle Creek is a hotel that has an array of amenities. They have a spa, golf course, pools, tennis court and nature trails. The hotel was founded on a waterway that is the headwater to the Florida everglades. Numerous stakeholder groups exist since the size of the hotel is so vast. Everyone plays a part in the success of Rosen Shingle Creek including suppliers, customers, employees, government, community, and the hotel itself all have a vested interest in Rosen Shingle Creeks’ Success.

When I was in kindergarten, I met my best friend. She was very shy at first and nothing about her seemed malicious. However, as the years went by, she became very imperious and unwilling to share anything, including friends. She wouldn’t allow me to befriend any other people without putting up a fight. However, she was allowed all the friends she pleased. Over the years she began to push everyone apart so that she was the common area between a bunch of enemies. Eventually, she and I began to argue over petty things and she would always make me feel as if I did something wrong. A massive argument then arose and I began to lose hope for our friendship because even though she was using me, I was oblivious at the time. The fight did separate us, and I was quite somber about the situation. However, this was when I realized all the things she had been doing wrong; all the things that I was better off without. The ending of our friendship for this period of time allowed me to reach this epiphany that I was my own person able to have my own friends, able to make my own decisions, able to be happy about my accomplishments. This sudden realization lifted the doleful weight from my shoulders, allowing me to become a much happier person with a new outlook on my life. Like I stated before, sometimes it takes us until we reach our lowest point to realize the journey that awaits, to regain the hope and strength that was lost