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My Own Worst Enemy Essay

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My Own Worst Enemy

What would happen to you if you must live your life in the hidden of your true self? The book that I recently read is called My Own Worst
Enemy written by Carol Sonenklar; hence it was published in 1999 by the Scholastic Inc. In the book, Eve Belkin is a young-teen girl who has just moved to Michigan because of the returning of her mother to medical field works. Eve has hard times in her old school of getting fit-in. Therefore she decided moving to a new place is a great opportunity to reinvent herself. She started to live her life under playing a role of a normal girl who dresses nice and neat all the time to impress her family of course. And yes, Eve gets good returns for what she gave out. She got being …show more content…

Yet her father must be a househusband for the family and Eve knew this is the hardest thing for a man to face. Since her mother has to go back to her pharmacy works, her family must move to Michigan. Eve was very sad that she has to leave her homeland and her true self behind.

Moving to Michigan was a dramatic change in Eve's life. Eve changed herself from a baggy careless girl into a normal neatly school girl to impress her parents; since under her parents and her old school friends and teachers, Eve was just a sort of troublemaker. Now changing herself into a normal looking girl is just a perfect thing for everyone. She makes friends with Kristine and Lisle who are the two most popular dressed neatly girls in the school. But Eve still does not feel happy at all. She does not like it when she must force herself to laugh along with Kristine and Lisle when they were making fun at the others peoples’ styles. She does not understand why Lisle and Kristine would not leave these people alone. They must always say something like “Can you believe that hairdo? It looks like road kill!” or “There’s Vampira … Her nose ring is hanging off one side!” and laughed about it when they know the truth is it is not even funny at all. She does not like it when she’s always must making up fake facts about her backgrounds to her friends and especially to their family also. When Eve was at Lisle’s house for a dinner, she lied to
Lisle’s parents that

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