Rachel Cohn Cupcake Sparknotes

Rob aims to get Simon elected Class favorite at the end of the year. Young gets nominated at most likely to succeed, Bob most handsome, Coop most athletic, Rob class favorite, and Simon wittiest and also class favorite. before the results are in Coop must take the Act and score a 15 in order to get a scholarship. After taking it Coop does not feel so well so Simon offers to take it for him and gets a score good enough to get Coop a scholarship. Coops dad always told him that he would never be anything more than a no one who picks up people's trash, by getting this scholarship Coop is able to prove him wrong. While all of this has been happening Young has fallen in love with Ronna Perry and has dated her since the beginning of the year at homecoming. Simon also somewhat likes Ronna. Rob talked to Young and told him that he needed to dump Ronna and let Simon date her instead so he can be more popular and have a better shot at class favorite. Young is devastated by this but accepts because of what him and Simon found out about Rob. Simon and young discover that Rob’s last name is Baddeck and actually moved from in state rather than out of state. Rob’s dad had actually molested Rob for up to sixteen years. Simon suspects that Rob is gay because Rob let it go on for sixteen years. Ultimately because of this Young breaks up with Ronna and gives her to Simon where he discovers he can never

Jack is 18 years old. He graduates from high school, and gets a job in the movie theatre as a ticket seller and a projectionist. He has a girlfriend named Katy, and they are going to get married in November. When he meets Katy’s parents for the first time, it was at her sister's wedding, he walked in wearing a coat and tie. Jack’s friend LeFranc plays trumpet, and he does not know what to say to a girl. But Jack is getting tired of his friends, but does not complain. He is not very enthusiastic about his job, and feels he is trapped inside. He perhaps feels like he is in a jail, because it is mentioned in the text, that while selling the tickets he looks out in the day light through the metal bars, and the metal bars perhaps symbolizes that he feels trapped inside. In the end he decides to leave in middle of his work, and drive with Katy to Fountain Lake which he wanted in a long time. He changes to a happy and free person, and finally says, that he loves her.

When Lengel sees the girls at the checkout counter, he says, “Girls, this isn’t the beach.” As the girls leave the in a hurry, Sammy says, “I quit.” Sammy hopes that the girls will hear, but they don’t and just keep on walking out to their car. Lengel reassures Sammy that he doesn’t want to quit, but Sammy wants to be these girls hero. As Sammy gets out to the parking lot, he looks around for the girls. He hoped that they would wait for him. Sammy thinks that he could hook-up with Queenie if he quits his job.

They then get on the discussion of mental illness and they talk about Kevin’s ex who cuts herself, and Olive’s son, who is depressed. They then get out of the car to help Patty Howe who jumped in the water over not being able to have a child, Olive and Kevin prevent her from drowning and get her the help she needs. The third story, “The Piano Player”, is about Angela O’Meara, a piano player in their small town for over twenty years. Angela had a lot of stage fright, so she came into work a little drunk every time. She was having an affair with a man named Malcolm Moody but breaks it off and starts seeing an old lover named Simon who told her despicable things about what her mother tried to do to him in previous years. Then at the end of the night, Malcolm goes to her and calls her a “nut” and “ a

Nancy Clutter, the sixteen year old daughter of Herb Clutter, is awaken by a phone call. This call is from a local woman, Mrs. Katz, who 's daughter wishes Nancy would teach her how to make a cherry pie. Nancy, after all, was the blue ribbon winner and cherry pie competition winner. Nancy is a very busy girl, and will be overbooked with the addition of this task to her daily agenda. She already had to help a neighbor with a trumpet solo, promised her mother she’d run errands for her, and attend a 4-H meeting in neighboring Garden City. But, after a quick rearrangement she makes time. Nancy had a steady boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, in which her father liked, but he wished they’d slowly cut things off to avoid the eventual heartbreak. Susan (Sue) Kidwell, Nancy’s best friend, calls later and they discuss Nancy’s night out on the previous night. She had gone out late with Bobby after her performance in Tom Sawyer.

He wins her heart with his energy, and willingness to make Janie his equal. Tea Cake is the only husband that actually takes a genuine interest in Janie. He takes her hunting, fishing, and plays checkers with her. She especially enjoys playing chess, the fact that he considers her intelligent enough to learn such a game shows that he thinks more of Janie than Logan or Joe ever did. The town disapproves of Janie and Tea Cake because he is poor and younger than her. They have the impression that he is just after her money. Janie and Tea Cake leave the town of Eatonville and travel to a town called Jacksonville where Tea Cake has work. The sense of gender equality is very important to Janie in a relationship. Tea Cake asks Janie to work alongside him in the Everglades fields. Logan and Joe both wanted her to work, but she resented it. The difference is that Logan wanted Janie to do hard labor because he thought of her as an object like a workhorse. Joe wanted Janie to work in the store, which she also disliked because Joe just wanted to publicly display her as his trophy wife. Tea Cake’s attitude about Janie working is completely different. He gives her the choice of working and doesn’t command her. Janie goes to work the next day, “So the very next morning Janie got ready to pick beans along with Tea Cake. There was a suppressed murmur when she picked up a basket and went to work. She was already getting to be a special case on the muck. It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake "pomped her up tuh dat." But all day long the romping and playing they carried on behind the boss’s back made her popular right away.”(133) This is the first relationship that Janie doesn’t care to work. She actually likes working alongside Tea Cake. As time passes the town gets word of a hurricane coming. All the people start fleeing to different places, but the boss

First, as mentioned, also she did have prestige with Jody, that came at a cost for her, as she was unable to connect and communicate with the townspeople, which in turns meant that she lacked friends, one key component in advancing. However, this no longer seems like a significant problem as she has Pheoby, a loyal friend that had obviously earned her trust as she discussing her life story with her. Nonetheless, while with the mayor, she lost the sense of her real self and from Jody’s perspective, she becomes a proper wife to a mayor. Accordingly, with Jody’s death, she is freed from her oppressed social life and carried on with life with the ambitions that she has. Additionally, and most importantly, she reflections upon her relationship with Tea Cakes. Unusually, her relationship with him was unlike all others she had previously because she enforces that in order for two people to have a truly loving bond, they must have mutual feelings along with civility between each other. Therefore, she realized what happened was ultimately fixed, as it was not something that Tea Cakes would do but due to the certain circumstances that were in place, it just happened like that. Therefore, she does experience that she truly was in love unlike the rest of the previous men, meaning her relationship with Tea Cakes was satisfactory. As a result, she feels like inspired by this particular relationship and feels safer than those preceding, as he was the only one to treat her how she should be treated. Accordingly, she makes amends and is at peace with him, allowing her to illuminate her path to self-success and accomplishment that is

After Jody’s death, Janie is alone in Eatonville and meets Tea Cake in the store. He arrives in Eatonville as a fun-loving man who quickly falls for Janie's beauty and charm. Although Janie fears that she is too old for Tea Cake, she cannot help but fall in love with this man. Janie leaves behind everything that she has ever known to start a new life with Tea Cake. She adores him, as he adores her. After moving to the Everglades with Tea Cake, she embraces this new life as well as her new friends. Finally, Janie has found the love like that between the bee and its blossom. She declares that Tea Cake could be a "bee to a blossom — a pear tree blossom in the spring."

However, in the March before Lori’s graduation, they discover the piggy bank smashed, and Lori blames her father for the incident. He had gone awol for three days prior. The issue seems unresolvable until Jeannette is offered a summer long babysitting job, along with a bus ride home. Instead, Jeannette tells her employer to take Lori, and provide a one way ride to New York. While Lori discovers in New York, Jeannette occupies herself with the Wave and begins planning to leave to New York before even graduating high school. Her father makes a last minute attempt to persuade her into staying, bringing up plans of the Glass Castle and dreams to build it. However, his tactic fails and Jeannette’s mind remains unchanged. She moves in with Lori and gets her first city job at a burger joint. This is until her internship leads her to being hired for the Phoenix newspaper. Brian soon moves in with Lori and Jeannette as well, and Jeannette’s boss encourages her to go to college. She attends Barnards, and in no time at all they find themselves harboring Maureen as well. Three years later,

They moved together to the Muck in the Florida Everglades and lived in Tea Cake's Shanty after the death of Joe. Tea Cake and Janie spent all the time they had together. They remained in constant tune with the nature and even went fishing together. This was the type of lifestyle Janie envisioned all her life. All of Janie’s previous relationships was based off of the spouse. Janie was never allowed to be herself and live the life she wanted. Tea Cake let her be herself. He loved her as she was and accepted all she dreamed of. He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be, to follow her goals, her dreams, and her aspirations. Janie had finally found her the man she had always been looking for. She loved him with everything she had. Janie would do anything for Tea Cake. They had the kind of everlasting love that she had hoped for all her life. Thing were going well for the new couple until a bad storm hit and Tea Cake gets bit by a dog trying to save Janie. Tea Cake ultimately get rabies and begins to act so distraught that Janie is forced to kill him. She killed Tea Cake in loving manner and could not bear watch him suffer

Whereas Connie is considered beautiful, June is seen as “plain and chunky” (496). Regardless of their differences, both girls have one thing in common, they both love to spend time with friends and Connie uses this to her advantage. On several occasions, a friend’s father has left them off at the mall, however once they arrive, Connie travels across the street “ to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out” ( 497). It is here that she comes into contact with her future assailant, but at the time she ignored his attention.

______’s son, falls in love with a strong, well-built girl named Sofia. Sofia becomes pregnant and they get married. Celie is astonished by Sofia’s strength, courage, and defiance in Harpo’s attempts to treat her as an inferior because she is a woman. Harpo kept on trying to beat Sofia into submission but consistently fail as Sofia is not only physically but emotionally stronger than him. Frustrated with Harpo’s multiple attempts to subordinate her, Sofia finally moves out with her children. After several months, Harpo opens a juke joint and has a new lover named, Squeak. Shug promises to stay and protect Celie from abuse when she learned that Mr. ______ beats Celie everytime that she is away. Shug and Celie’s relationship become intimate and Celie gets puzzled about her feelings toward Shug.

Cupcake is a novel written by Rachel Cohn. Cohn wrote Cupcake in 2007. Cohn is an author that blew up in 2002, with her first book titled Gingerbread. In Cohn’s last book, Cyd Charisse moved to New York City away from her stunning boyfriend Shrimp. In Cupcake, we learn what happens to Cyd in the scary town of New York City. “Rachel Cohn is an American young adult fiction writer”. Her first book, Gingerbread, was published in 2002. (Teen Reads, 2016). In Cupcake, Cohn in my opinion is trying to teach kids how life is outside of their parents home. Cupcake is a fictional novel teaching kids living on your own, is not an easy task. Cyd Charisse, also known as CC, is a young adult moving to New York to fulfill her parents’ dream of going to culinary

Astonishingly, she turned it around. With the help of a cobbled together family of eccentric fellow addicts and "angels"--a series of friends and strangers who came to her aid at pivotalmoments--she slowly transformed her life from the inside out. A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving and almost transgressive in its frankness, it is a relentlessly gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contem-porary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and utterly original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take. When it came time for me to talk, I wasn't sure which parts of my past to tell, which to keep secret, and which to pretend never happened. Uncle Jr. had already seen the welts on my back, so he wasn't too surprised when I told them about some of the physical abuse I endured at Diane's. Everyone else hit the roof, except Daddy. He got really quiet and started balling and unballing his

Jack Smith a 17 years old teen from (Ontario, Canada) is invited to stay with his cousin Mary Loose-Doe from (Water city, N.Y). Accompanying him in his trip is his other cousin 21 year old Bill Jones, both boys are foreign to the United States and the city life as they derive from a small settlement. Mary shows the boys a good time, taking them out to party’s offering them marijuana and alcohol. The boys are later introduced to Mary’s boyfriend 21 year old Pete Poorchoice. Pete is a High school droop out and veteran of two reformatories.