Written by Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer is a story that showed a window into the life of a young woman named Verna La Vaughn who was facing the maturation process. During the story Verna La Vaughn overcame many obstacles in her everyday life. As the story began when Verna La Vaughn was 15, the story had a very eventful mood because Verna La Vaughn had many lessons to learn because she was becoming a young woman.
Verna La Vaughn was the main character and narrator. She narrated the story as though it were her diary, which she wrote in daily. Verna La Vaughn’s personal appearance was never discussed in the story; however the reader was informed about her family life. She lived with her mother in a small apartment where they had lived
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Another conflict that La Vaughn faced was that she had a very passionate crush on a childhood friend, Jody, and wanted desperately for him to ask her to the school dance. La Vaughn admired everything about Jody, from his fresh chlorine smell (he was a swimmer), to his cheerful attitude. She admired most Jody’s desire and determination to attend college. La Vaughn waited anxiously for Jody to invite her to the dance as his date, but he never had the courage to. Finally, La Vaughn gathered the courage to ask Jody to the dance. To her delight, he agreed to her invitation. Jody and La Vaughn had a wonderful time together at the dance, and La Vaughn cherished the pictures they had taken together on that special night.
After the dance, La Vaughn and Jody both became very busy with their studies and other obligations. They rarely had time to see one another, so La Vaughn was always pleased when she would see Jody in the elevator of their apartment complex. Seeing Jody even for a minute made her day brighter. Jody was such a positive person, that his happy-go-lucky personality seemed to “radiate” off of him onto La Vaughn, who was a more serious person.
La Vaughn also faced internal conflict when her widowed mother began to have involvement with another man named Lester. La Vaughn had loved her father dearly and felt very sad to see her mother with another man. She felt that her father was irreplaceable, as most daughters would. Nonetheless, La Vaughn appreciated that
School has just let out for summer. John has daily chores to complete to help his dad with the workload of the ranch. John liked the work on the ranch he had a love for the land and the horses. Between his girlfriend, mom, and sisters john felt overcrowded with women and wanted to be away from them. When john got into the truck to leave he tells his friend “...Women! Between Kelsey my sisters and my mom I haven’t had a peaceful minute in weeks!” John was ready for a change of scenery.
With a weary grunt, Booker shifted the bag of groceries in his arms and kicked his apartment door closed with his foot. He had planned to be home early so he take Tom out to dinner as a birthday surprise, but as usual, work had ruined his plans. When he had rung Tom and explained that he would be home late, he had expected him to react moodily, but instead, he had received a sympathetic response. It was a sign that their relationship was now on stable footing. Tom was more open about his feelings, and they argued less about the trivialities of everyday life; they were moving forward.
After some back and forth problems, Sandy and Danny finally dated, but at the school dance, Sandy got another blow to her self-esteem. She and Danny were having a great time dancing, they were even the stars of the dance, when Danny’s ex-girlfriend Cha-Cha slid in and moved Sandy out of the way. Cha-Cha was beautiful, dressed provocatively and was a great dancer. Instead of following Sandy, Danny continued to dance with Cha-Cha and they won the dance contest. Since they won the dance contest, they had to slow dance together. Sandy stormed out of the dance angry, hurt and jealous of Cha-Cha.
Later the narrator tells of how he follows her to school and how he thinks about her constantly, much like an adolescent in “love” would do. This feeling is not foreign to any reader; during the youth of our lives, we too have desired someone at a point beyond normality.
Bunch had lived in West Covina for, she had planned on getting Mr. Chan to fall in love with her. She did so by pretending to be in love with Mr. Chan’s best friend, Greg Serrano. Her plan backed fired when she told Mr. Chan and all of his friends, including Mr. Serrano, that she moved to West Covina to be with Mr. Chan, doing so somehow got Mr. Chan to admit some true feelings for Ms. Bunch. After a year’s worth of plans, Ms. Bunch had finally achieved her goal: to get Mr. Chan to fall in love with her.
Other days, the teens would find their way down to the docks. Listening to the voices of the gang begging to use the town rowboat always filled The Captain’s heart with great amusement. True to his spirited nature, he couldn’t help but tease; first acting gruff with a look of annoyance at the teens' pleadings, then cracking a smile and bellowing an overwhelming, “Yes.” Taking turns rowing around the harbor, hanging around The Captain and chatting to the locals who happened by, had Lelia and her friends wishing the summer could go on forever.
Janie’s second home helped her learn that love cannot be bought with gifts. Jody was a successful man; he had become Mayor of Eatonville. Even thought Jody bought many gifts for Janie he was no better than Logan at affection and love. Jody was a sexist and disrespected women. He restricted Janie’s freedom out of jealousy, she would only go out for work or chores. The only reason she stayed with him was that she didn’t have many options. “but he is something in my mouth He’s got tuh be else Ah aint got nothing ‘tun live for. Ah’ll lie and say he is. If ah font, life wont be nothing but uh store and uh house”. She had to lie and fake her love for Jody except when Jody had died, she mourned the loss of him and had mix feelings but she cherished her freedom as a widower. After several months she wanted to go back to her birth home but remembering she had no more family to go to, she didn’t know what to do and that transitions to her final
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With Anna and Elena’s limos pulling up to the school daily, seeing another one wasn’t as big of an attention getter as it once was. Something was suspicious about how quickly the new teacher’s relationship has suddenly manifested itself. Not only that. from the moment the new boyfriend appeared, she never got within several feet of Norman ever again. Oh, but when he had called her over to look over his work and she asked one of the students next to her to bring his work to her, it was obvious what was going on.
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