Invisible Emmie Book Report

Friendships change over time. Some people stay your friends forever others are only temporary. This essay shows how my friendships have changed between Elementary school and Middle school, between middle and high school, and how some have stayed the same over the course of my education.

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

Most children are not very fond of reading books in school. I was one of those children until I read a novel called, “The Other Side of Dark” written by Joan Lowery Nixon in the 4th grade. My school had held a book fair during the week of open house. As a child, all children want the toys and games they had at the book fair, not bothering to even glance at the books. My mother told me to look for a book that was not only easy for me to read but something that I would enjoy. I walked around our petite library, which was where the book fair was being held, and scanned the various novels that were displayed until one caught my eye. I was only 10 years old looking for a book without the knowledge of what types of literature that interested me. As I turned the corner at the end of the library I caught a glimpse of a hardcover novel called “The Other Side of Dark”. On the back of novel I read the synopsis which was about a 13 year-old girl who was shot and put into coma until she was 17 years old waking up to discovering that her family was also murdered by the same person who shot her 4 years ago. I was quickly captivated by this summary on the back of the novel and persuaded to read further. Open house was coming to an end and my family and I headed back to our house in La Mirada, California. One of our homework assignments was to read at least 20 minutes a night to improve our reading skills. We quickly arrived at our home and I

Humans need social interaction to flourish and they tend to select a few people to become closest with. They share secrets, gossip about others, and support each other in times of need, but how well can someone really know another person? In Nineteen Minutes the reader watches Josie Cormier get ready for school, hiding her private personality away for the day. “Either Josie was someone she didn’t want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted” (Picoult 8). To all of Josie‘s classmates, friends, teachers, and even her own mother she seems like the perfect child. Josie hangs out with the right crowd, gets great grades, and follows all of society's rules perfectly, but no one really knows who she is. Behind the mask perfection Josie is just another teenager struggling with depression and identity issues. The author chooses to make the most popular girl in school also one of the most depressed to show that although things may seem beautiful on the outside, they can be rotting from the inside. Picoult is proving how that easy it is for people to hide their personalities to the world.

Looking back now, I know who my true friends were; they were the ones that were still there for me even when I didn’t see them everyday. I went to a bigger school; and by that I mean from a class of 20-25 to a class of 35-40. It was a Christian school and had a dress code; I had to wear a collared shirt with tan, black, or navy blue pants. I continued to play sports like I did at my first school and made some pretty good friends through that. That year I started wearing makeup even though my parents didn’t want me to. They left for work before I got ready for school and I got home and took it off before they saw it. It was also the first time that I got asked to be someone’s boyfriend. I was so excited about it but I did the right thing and asked my parents for their opinion before I told the guy yes or no. I asked my mom after she got home from work that night and she wasn’t as excited it about it as I was. She told me I wasn’t old enough to date yet; I wasn’t happy with the answer but I respected it and they next day I told the guy

The protagonist, Lily Owens is isolated from her community s because her lifestyle is different than others. Lily’s mother is dead. Her father, T-Ray, is abusive and never cares for Lily's needs. "He did not care that I wore clothes I made for myself in home economics class...outfits only the Pentecostal girls wore. I might as well have worn a sign on my back: I am not popular and never will be,"(Kidd p.8).

Arloa Sutter’s book, The Invisible (Sutter, A. (2010). The Invisible. Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House). This book is about how as Christians it is our job to go and help the poor. Sutter tells about her own personal journey of how she go to where she is now. She tells tales of some of the people who have been in the homeless shelter. These stories are touching and at times, really emotional. Sutter calls us to go and help the homeless. She gives us tips on getting closer to God and listening to his voice. She calls us to be more like Jesus, Sutter uses a lot of scripture to back up her points in how we can be like Him.

As a child, I felt that having friends was the most significant cause in who I am today. Throughout my life I have had many friends who have influenced me in numerous ways, but now most of them have become distant acquaintances. Although the majority

Before I came to Baker Middle School, I attended elementary school in Laytonsville. I had a group of friends that consisted of five people, Olivia Fink, Olivia Pallas, Mason LeBlanc, Kody Johnson, and Stefan Jacob. The Olivia’s both attend this school alongside me, but sadly the other three attends a different school. I became friends with those three because we all had common interests in multiple categories such as cartoons and humor. I still keep in touch with them, but I know we aren’t as close as we used to be. With the Olivia’s we all became best friends in the first week of Kindergarten and we still have been by each other’s side since. We became friends because we all sat next to each other on our little chairs, and talked about anything

After knowing that people don’t really know about the Saskatchewan history that was happened before back in 1920, when a police officer Sgt. John Wilson murdered his own wife because of his personal intention to marry a different woman. Simmie planned to write a book about this police man. And the story got started when after Rob sander the publisher at Douglas and McIntyre LTD agreed to her plan, Sander is one of people who never heard the story about john Wilson before, but was amaze after hearing it from Simmie. He published the book to help Simmie achieve her purpose and one of the person behind the scene who make that all of this will become worthwhile.

It is when high school started, I began to get closer to my friends. They would always invite me to

Confident explains Emily the best in my opinion. Em and Patrick mainly send pictures of random things to each other like a leg or a foot. But then Patrick sends a picture of himself in his underwear and Em jumps at the chance to do the same. Though her friends try to stop her and tell her that she shouldn't do it because they don't want her to get hurt, she doesn't listen. In the text when Bridge says ‘I’d say he was creepy. Is Patrick even your boyfriend?’ Emily responds with ‘You promised not to be judgy. People walk around the city in less than a bathing suit.’ And when Bridge continues to show her dismay with the subject, Em simply replies with, ‘ I think that you're, like, just not there yet.’ What better way to end an argument then by trying to hurt their feelings? All of her friends warn her of all of the risks she's taking but of course she ignores them. But she does promise Bridge that she won't send the picture right away, that she’ll think about it for a while. But when the pictures of her gets leaked around the school, she completely ignores it. She treats it as though it were such an irrelevant subject. In the story she says, ‘ But I don't mind, I mean I do, but I don't’. No matter what happens she doesn't care what other people think. All that matters to her is

My younger years are a little foggy to me but you still remember the people who you called your bestfriends, who bullied you for no reason, or those who had anger problems. There are not enough fingers to count my friends from elementary school, there was Skylynn , Aaliyah, Irie, Makia, and Nevaeh. They all helped me become who I am today. Makia helped we with my sassiness I’ve always been bossy but she gave me a good argument sometimes, I always won but she helped me with good comebacks. Aaliyah was sweet but took control she was like the queen B of Elementary School but she was the nice once that everybody would be cool with before she left. Irie she was and still is goofy and she always lets out her goofiness. Nevaeh is all of the above and we always sung together we even wrote little songs, we were called the “Song Girls” then we changed it to “Diva Girlz” in 5th Grade. We were awesome we had the best songs even though they were extra corny. Singing has always and will always be me. Singing is my first love, Basketball and

One of my earliest childhood memories was in a huge playground with kids the same age as me, laughing and talking in a foreign language, except I was the only one lost in translation. The memory was of a time when my parents sent me to an all-girls boarding school in India at five years of age. Learning how to adjust to a new culture was difficult, to say the least. However, I have grown from this unique experience. I developed a new mentality to adapt to any situation, and truly believe friends can help support anyone through any circumstance. I also learned many new cultural experiences that influence my life today. It is these experiences at my boarding school that has shaped me into the person I am today.

Through Emily Grierson, the theme of isolation and the effects of the same come out strong throughout the story. Emily secludes herself from the society. She shuts her doors for months, and only the Negro man that comes in and out of the house shows signs of life in the house. "The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed."