Babe in Boyland

Author's Note: This is my predicting piece and I have added what I think will happen to the love column in the school's paper and how it will affect Natalie.

Since I just started the book and I read the back cover, I already know what is going to happen. I will predict what will happen to Natalie's love column: Dr. Aphrodite. It didn't say anything about what happens to the love column on the back of the book.  It sounds like Chas and a large majority of the male student body want the column gone. This is a passage from the book that expresses this very thoroughly.

"Posted by: Shredder103- I've been reading your column ever since you started it last year, and I haven't said anything, but I've got to speak up because it's getting out of control. Every single week girls write you for advice and all you ever tell them is what they want to hear. You have no idea how guys think or feel about anything! All you're doing is helping girls at this school perpetuate their delusions about the world and how it works. Not once have you ever told them anything useful or sane from a guy's point of view. Do us all a favor and stop!" (Page 8)

I think that somebody will hack the page again like they said on page 6 and try to somehow manage to delete the website. Then, since there has to be some sort of Log-in name you need for the website, the person everyone will find out it was Natalie who was writing the page. People will keep picking on her because they know she has no love life. Why is she writing the column if she's never had a real relationship? Who does she think she is giving advice to people when she hasn't experienced the problem in her life? 

How I would end this section:

"Chas, I really don't think that--" cried Natalie. 

"No, it must be deleted. We are getting too much hate on this site. Either you take it down or someone else will," he fired.

As Natalie's day went on, it just got progressively worse... Until she got home. She logged onto her computer and went straight to the blog's site. But she couldn't log in. 

"I can't believe it," she muttered to herself, "someone actually deleted my account and the site."

She thought to herself, I wonder what they're thinking. Have they found out it was me this whole time? Oh who am I kidding, of course they know, my name was the password.

 

She sat on her bed and stared at the screen, awe-struck. Natalie had dug herself in pretty deep and didn't know how to get out. She thought again, whoever found out started the column is probably told all their friends about it...and who wrote it. ME. School is going to be horrid. Since people will know that I did it, they will pick on me for giving relationship advice when I haven't been in one...ever. 

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As I walked into school the next day, I got one glare after the next. Somebody knew. Actually, it seemed as though everyone knew. I just want to cry. I didn't ever mean for this website to go up in flames, I only wanted to help people and now I have turned it into a problem that didn't need to happen. 

Their Bodies

Author's Note: My inspiration for this piece was a short story called, "The Telltale Heart." Once you read this piece, you might then understand what happens in that story as well. This poem is somewhat confusing and my teacher told me to go all out and break all rules of poetry...So here it is.

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Like raIn

Flooding down the window pane

The pain, the guilt 

The wanting to flee

I knew dOing what I Did

In the end

I couldn't Be free

So I will keep it a secret

And you'll never find their

Mr. Mason's Jars

Author's Note: This is about predicting what I thought would happen at the end of this story.

In the end, I think that Troy and Molly will break up because he went to see Mr. Mason's jars. Just because she saw what seeing the jars could do to someone, she didn't think he would be worth it anymore. Troy will most likely be offended that such a nice person like her would take such a position as to judge him on which teachers he likes because he offered to show him something he thought would be cool. However, Molly wouldn't find out until the end of the book that he went to see the jars; like he did it in secret. That would be when all of this would happen. Troy wouldn't think that Molly ever found out. I think that my prediction is correct because that is mainly how relationships end, disagreements and differences. 

I was not correct at all. Mr. Mason's made Troy open up the jar and look inside of it. He ended up being hypnotized by it and he couldn't get it out of his hands. He pulled the jar away quickly and made Troy leave. He left very differently than he came in. Once he left, Mr. Mason grabbed the jar off the table and put a piece of masking tape on it and with a sharpie, labeled it Troy and put it on a shelf with a bunch of others except for the fact that they were labeled with different names. That means that he has done it to a bunch of other children. That is why the one kid they saw walking zombie-like in the cafeteria. It all makes perfect sense. 

Little Lies

Author's Note: In this letter to a character from the book, Alison from Pretty Little Liars, you will find how she changed, who she changed, and a character she relates to from another thing. Overall, you will see how she changes throughout the novel. 

Dear Alison, 

Just knowing your name and your past chills me to the bone. I know you have some friends, but you are wicked mean to all of those who dare cross your path. Thinking about it though, you are mean to even those who know all your secrets and you know all theirs: your best friends. How could people have respect for you when all you do is stab them, verbally, in the back? No one could. No wonder you are dead. Obviously someone just couldn't take it any more. You changed many different people's lives in ways that maybe you wouldn't have thought you could. 

Not only did the way you made your presence known change, you changed how much you were talking to people and socializing. Your friends noticed how timid you were acting around them; questioning every word they chose to share with you. You stopped sharing things with them and they noticed something was going on. One things that was and odd step in all of this was that you weren't as mean as usual. It almost seemed as if you knew that something bad was going to hit you when you least expected it. Funny how dead-on the human mind can be sometimes. 

One person that you changed drastically was Lucas; the weird boy that lurks around school. Maybe he was lurking because he was afraid of you. You tormented him until he was scared to even attend school. First he was a happy young man who was nice to everyone. Quickly, he became the one that was a target for not just you, but the rest of your school as well. Since you picked on him all the time, people thought it was okay because Alison DiLaurentis, Ms. Popular, decided he was a vulnerable weak point. You made this poor kid's life a living tragedy.

Because you are the most popular in your grade and you have a bad reputation, you remind me of a horrible character from a movie, Mean Girls. Regina George is her name; everyone pretends to like her because they are scared of what she could do to them. Sound familiar? She says horrible things about people behind their backs and to their faces just like you and everyone despises her for it. Her friends don't even like her.

The ways you took hold of many people's lives was cruel, vile, and for you, deadly. You not only rattled many people's lives, you changed them overall. You are a very cold-hearted person and nobody appreciated you for that. Near the end of your life, you acted like a totally different person and people could tell. Somebody wanted you dead and they went to many lengths to make it happen. If you really think about it, you deserved it.

~A