Freak Show at School

Anne struggles with her identity and developing herself as a person. Anne believes that she is a good person but because of her confinement she is not able to reach her full potential. Anne never get the chance to reach her full potential and never gets the chance of becoming the good person she has in mind.

In the poem 1958, Gwendolyn MacEwen describes the high school environment as it would have been in the late 1950’s. Popular fads among the teenagers during this era are explored in detail. The prevailing theme throughout the text pertains to the idea of belonging. The poem focuses primarily on the desire teenagers have to fit in. Throughout this response I will explore the ways in which this poem differs and relates to the high school environment today. Secondly I will analyze the connections between this poem and a modern day movie. Lastly, I will express the ways in which my personal experiences relate to the central message in the poem.

“OK, calm down,” she attempted using mom voice, but her upturned lips and her laughing eyes

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you hear what I said?” The girl walked slowly, dragging her feet as she left.

As the story progresses, so does Lizabeth. Having entered a difficult stage of her identity, Lizabeth is unsure of whether to be an innocent, carefree child, or to be a knowledgeable, aware adult. She begins to sense a change in the coming, and a feeling of end

One afternoon, right after the final bell of the day had rung, I was at my locker, packing up my things quickly to make the bus on time. As I swung my backpack onto my shoulder, it collided with someone who I didn’t realize was standing directly behind me. I barely had enough time to register what had just happened before one of my friends yelled “Ouch! F* you Emma!” I was so surprised that someone could have said something so mean to me that I ran out of school and onto the bus. As we pulled out of the parking lot, I leaned against the window, trying to process my feelings on what the person I thought was my friend had said to me. Almost immediately I concluded that my friend must now hate me and that I shouldn’t hang out with him any more because he’d yell at me.

Sammy, deemed to be the protagonist of the story, is nothing short of the typical nineteen year old, full of insecurity and self doubt, working an average job at a local supermarket. He’s desperate to break out of hometown, desperate to leave behind the people like Stokesie and Lengel, who he perceives to be just some “scared pigs in a chute”, but struggles to find an escape route. That is, until he encounters Queenie, a girl who lives a life Sammy can only dream of. Queenie resembles everything Sammy wants to be. She is a natural leader, hence the nickname “Queenie” awarded to her by Sammy. She’s also proud, and confident. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her and loves herself without apology. So when Queenie offers Sammy the opportunity to transform himself into the person he only dreamed of being; a rebellious, confident and fearless spirit with little regard for anyone else, Sammy jumps at it. As a result, Sammy makes a rash decision to quit, in hopes of following Queenie to her sophisticated world outside of the A&P supermarket. Sammy’s rash decision to quit was an attempt to escape, live a new and exciting life, but falls short when the girls leave him behind and reality slaps him in the

Throughout the novel, she experiences different types of conflicts as she adapts to her new school environment and attemptedly fulfills her obsessive desire to fit in. The inner conflict in which she experiences throughout the

By Junior year everyone wanted to be in Ms. Gruwell's class. They heard it was a fun class and Ms. Gruwell didn’t judge them on how they looked or their education. She didn’t care about their disabilities or dyslexia. The sure-to-dropouts had started passing all their classes and proving themselves to everyone that doubted them. They had a future at this point.

What are freak shows? Freak shows are a display of people or animals with unusual physical features in a circus. The act of a freak show has a different back ground to it, which it puts their appearance on display to make other people see the way that they were made. How were they made, well they were made in God’s image. God loves us with all his heart, and my opinion is that God dosen’t make mistakes, and dosen’t want us to think of other people as freaks shows, and he dosen’t want the people with different features to think they are freaks, because you are making pitty for yourself. My opinion is that freak shows are not in my opinion a good idea.

Once the student is back in his room, he begins pondering his life's situation. He is sensitive to his current environment, and imagines Harlem and New York talking to him, as if they were friends. They are the two worlds he is a part of, and he tries to resolve the differences by acknowledging the similarities. He recognizes that his life has many things in common with other people; working, loving, reading, learning, eating, sleeping, etc. Only the objects of expression are different.

from the start to at the end, and the changes of Eliza, the main theme

One day while working a candidate’s event he started up a conversation with Hannah Higgins, who was running for Congress. Hannah began to mock his speech and tell him how she could fix it; Colline Pickering, Hannah’s campaign manager apologized to the young man and they go on their way. Eliet comes by Hannah and Collines building and asks them to help him talk proper so he can get a higher up position at his work. At first Hannah says no, but then she begins to think of how she lost her election and there is going to be a reelection. She knows that she stands no chance in the reelection, because she is not well liked, but she notices how Eliet can talk to anyone and make them smile. She gets the idea to clean him up and have him run for the Congressional seat. Hannah isn’t up front with Eliet about putting him in the election; once he figures out what she is up to he is raged. He then thinks it over and runs for the office winning the election. Hannah and Eliet then fall in

Annemarie is still a schoolgirl and she is unaware of the world around her her, but when she finds out that her best friend Ellen was temporary left to live on her own Annemarie's as witty as she is takes Ellen in.

Anne is figuring out the different aspects of her gender identity. She is taking on new life roles everyday. She must balance her time between being a student, friend, co-worker, lover, all the while making the transition from child to adult. She has been having trouble making the transition from childhood to adulthood. After high school she was holding on to her childhood for dear life but now is learning how to let go and move on.