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

What They Missed

Author's Note: In this writing piece, you will find out about what the founding fathers missed in the constitution that created major problems over the next 200 years. One thing that I worked on in this essay was understanding each of the different topics.


Thinking about our country and how it started is honestly boring to me. Our teacher asked us, if you could go back in time and talk to America's founding fathers, what would you say? Trying to answer this question boggled my mind a little bit because to start, I didn't even know who the founding fathers were. I also barely knew what the constitution was. Nobody ever bothered to teach us about the true meaning behind any of those things. After I looked into some information on the topic myself, I started thinking about things that they never actually added in the constitution that over the years, that created major problems in our country that would have made our country a better place if they were illegal in the first place. In the constitution, they missed talking about women's rights, slavery, and the environment and that created strong effects.

One of the biggest things that was never mentioned in the constitution was Women's Rights. Everyone now knows that women have the exact same rights as men. However, that isn't how it used to be. Women were not given the right to vote up until 1920 due to the power of the 19th amendment. Another thing is that women didn't receive equal pay compared to men. Usually women were used for other things other than actually making a living like they do nowadays. Lastly of the many other things that created problems for women, was marriage by force. They didn't get to choose who they married; it was usually their parents who chose or the person who wanted to marry them. Even though women's rights were a large problem in our nation's early years, slavery was an even greater aspect of trouble in our country.

Slavery should have been abolished way before it was even started. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was the only president to think about abolishing slavery; he was actually successful. It is not right to judge someone by their skin color; they didn't choose what they look like. Just because someone was black, doesn't mean that they deserved to be sold to anyone to work in a field all day. It should not have ever crossed anybody's mind to have slaves. We are all the same people, we just have different, unique characteristics that make each one of us who we are. Really, slavery should not have ever made and impact on our nation or anyone's nation at all.

A problem in any country, especially the U.S.A., is that there is pollution everywhere. You may not even notice it, but it is in the air that you breathe. Pollution is anything from exhaust being let out of a car, to plastic bags being thrown in a landfill. Occasionally as you are driving on the road, you may look out your window and just see garbage scattered along the side of the road. The cause of that is because people don't want to keep gross trash in their cars, so they dispose of it out the window. In the constitution, they never had any laws about the environment. The earth is not a dumpster; people do sadly treat it like one. 

Slavery, women's rights, and the environment are three huge components they missed in the creation of the constitution that not being there, impacted our nation in many ways. There being many problems our country faced through the years, these were some of the ones I found that created the most predominant effects. Throughout the years as we became a stronger, more bonded country, we worked together to solve those problems. Now, we all work to keep it that way. 

Fruit Fluff

Author's Note: This piece is about my fun time on New Year's Eve two years ago. You will figure out what I did that I should not have done in the way that I did.

Have you ever thought about doing something, second guessing it, and then doing it anyway? Well that is basically my idea of decision making in this story. I probably shouldn't have done what I needed to do in the way that I did. As we approached my friends' house on New Year's Eve, all I had been thinking about was the fruit fluff that was in my hands. How excited I was the previous day when my mom had been making it. How it would taste squished up against my taste buds. How the first bite would make me react. Once my friend opened the door, the first thing she laid eyes on was the bowl in my hands. I brought it in the house and set it on the counter. As the night progressed, we had lots of interesting stories to share and things to do. When we gathered our plates with tasty food, we skipped loading up on fruit fluff because we consider that 'dessert' so we ate it last. Morgan and I made our way down to the family room and turned on the T.V. for a while. Once our plates were gone, we headed back upstairs for the mouthwatering fluff. As expected, there was a line to get more food. We waited anxiously in line with the fruit fluff taunting us as it sat there looking delicious. Once we got there, we slapped it on the plate. With eagerness, we headed back downstairs.

You may think that it isn't possible to devour luscious looking food while playing Zumba; you are only half correct. When the game first started, it was pretty easy to manage eating and dancing at the same time. I mean, you are only jumping around. Bringing the fruit fluff downstairs during our game probably wasn't a great idea in the first place. Once we got into harder levels, I had positioned the fluff's plate on the couch to make sure it wouldn't fall over. Sometimes having a fun time dancing and eating aren't exactly the greatest combination. I had gotten a little too excited and suddenly I found myself falling onto the couch. Of all the possible spots to land on the couch, I just had to land right into the fluff. I hadn't really noticed what I had sat in; I jumped back up and started bouncing around again. Morgan had seen the pink blob of fruit fluff on my pants and she told me and then it hit me. I sat in my favorite food. Fortunately, I was sleeping over at her house that night so I just went upstairs to her room to grab my pants. Since nobody else was in the family room with us, I just decided I was going to change down there. Let me tell you in advance; horrible choice on my part. 

Hobbling back downstairs, fruit fluff still covering my pants, I told Morgan what my plan was to just change down there. She said alright, and went into her brother's room which is also down in the family room. I was precisely half-way through changing and wouldn't you know her brother had to come get something from his room at the exact same moment? Frozen, I stood in the middle of the family room stunned with embarrassment. Without thinking, he ran back upstairs as fast as his legs would carry him. I precipitously slid my legs into the pant holes and told Morgan what had happened. She doubled over laughing. I couldn't believe what had just happened. Bradley, about five minutes later had come back downstairs and pointed at me and said, "We never speak of this." Of course I would never tell anyone after all that humiliation. As the night passed on, we never conversed or made eye contact. This was awkward at the time, but in reality, it wasn't after I thought about it; Bradley is basically like a brother to me, only because I have known him for so long. As the night wound down, everything turned out to be just fine between us.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Author's Note: In these paragraphs, you will find out about the cause and effect of one of the events in the book Thirteen reasons why and also about if the event were to change, which path would the story take.

In the book Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, the event that occurs is that one of the most well known people in the city commits suicide. She leaves 13 tapes, double-sided, and each side has a person that it is about and it is blaming that person for some reason why she killed herself. The cause was that she ended her life because she wasn't happy anymore. People treated her very terribly. Once the first person is done with the tapes, they set it on the doorstep of the next person listed in the tapes. 

The climax is right in the beginning; Hannah Baker killed herself. Because climaxes are the turning point, peak, or change in a story, that is the climax. When she made the decision to end her life, she made many people have mixed emotions. She ended her life for a reason that could have been fixed. The effect on this is that all the people have to live with the guilt for the rest of their lives, being a small portion of why the girl killed herself. 

If this event were to change, the story would not be a story unless this was the smallest problem. Also, the author would've had a different plot in mind obviously, because this is the basis of the story. The author would definitely have some problems in life if they could come up with something worse than suicide by a  teenage girl.