Time to Say Good Bye to This Amazing Book

Summary of this week´s chapters

We got to the end of the book! I can´t believe it. On this last chapters I learned about finding your inner strength.The first story was about a girl who got to be lonely and that was awfull. Her friends started to talk bad about her behind her back and then her boyfriend dropped her and later he was with one of her friends. She didn´t understand what she had done but later she understood that she was better alone. The other story was about a girl who was from Africa and all the other girls bothered her becuase she was like pretending to be an american girl. She later started to realize what true happiness is and she discovered her true happiness when she found god. This stories were the last stories that showed me a message. 

When I found out the boyfriend dropped her for her friend I was like this:

Important quotes

"Life is long, and you are stronger than you think" (Simmons 180).

This is a really good quote because it can help teenage girls that feel very bad. This quote might get them strenght to get up again and be better. It is true because we are stronger than we think and we are capable of lots of things we think we can't.

"I've found happiness is not something that is easily gained" (Simmons 194).

I agree with this quote because through my life I have known that happiness is not easy. Sometimes you believe you are happy when you really aren't. I also think that to achieve happiness you have to get help from someone so it is not so difficult. For example, I would find happiness with some of my friends and they also make me really happy so I think that if it wasa like that, happiness would not be so difficult to find.

Final Thoughts

This book was really awesome! I learned a lot of things about teenage lifes like advices, their feelings, why thei react the way they react etc. This was a very good author I think she knew exactly what she was talking about. She really gave me lots of good advices and i[m happy I read this book. I really liked the fact that I didn't felt this book was a book that I had to read because I had to, I really enjoyed reading this book and each week I was super excited to keep reading it!

This week's meme

Me after reading this book.

Getting More Deep Thoughts

Summary of this week's chapters

On this week's reading I learned and read about when girls want to fit into society (the popular group). The first story was about a girl that didn't fit on her school cliques. She was once invited to a dance and she thought this was very rare. When she entered the party, a girl started to insult her and she felt so bad she started crying and called her mom to pick her up. The next day a girl told her to like kill herself, at the beginning she thought she was kidding so she laughed but then she realized she was not kidding and she burst in tears. She later started to feel really insecure about herself making her get really sick. At the end, she did found true friends and now she is good and is so grateful for her friends. The other story was about an Asian girl. She first got really hated for a girl called Karen but then she solved things with Karen. Later she found a group of friends she spent over summer and they really liked her until they got to class again and ignored her and threw her out of her group. She considered again suicide until she also made the bully feel bad and then she realized that it was not ok. She then changed from school and was happy again.
Hypocrite people just make me feel like....

Important quotes

"And I will never try to become another person again" (Simmons 175).

This quote is important because it shows a super important message. It teaches us that after a big struggle like the ones these girls are going through, they learned that they should always be their selves. But this shouldn't be just applied after something like this. This should be a lesson you should always apply and this is a message a lot of teenage girls need. 

"I am awed by their courageous self-respect in the face of seemingly endless sorrow" (Simmons 160).

I really like a lot how this author talks about this girls. The author acknowledges her courageous and I really like that. I think it doesn't only makes the author of the stories feel good, but it also makes the one reading feel good. 

Final Thoughts

I think these chapters were the chapters more intense from the book. In this section you could really get to see things like suicide and that is not a very slight thing. This section of the book also was the one that made me think the most about bullying. I also think we got deeper in the feelings of these authors. There is only one section more left on the book, I hope is really great!

This week's meme

When the happy ending finally comes

Wow! How Can People Survive This

Summary of this week's chapters

These chapters were about how girls survive over bullying and all that stuff. A story was about a girl that gets excluded from her group and her friends like pretend like if she didn't exist like they supposedly wrote all the group names except for hers. Other story was about this girl that felt insecure about herself and started to pick on a girl called Jodie and she started bullying her by telling her mean things and making her feel bad just because she was insecure about herself. Another story was about this girl who had a best friend but her best friend left the country and they made official groups of girls, she joined the popular girls and years later her friend came back but she realized her friend did not wanted to be with her because everyone thought she was annoying and it was like a bad reputation. With this and more stories I learned and made connections to stories about teenage girl life.

Important quotes

"Let's say you feel like a friend of yours has been weird to you all day" (Simmons 144).

When I was reading this book I started to think a lot about this quote. I think this type of witting the author uses is very good since it gives example and it starts to see the world like we see. I really like how the author understands how girls feel. I also think is very good how the author knows how to write a book to a specific audience.

"Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me"(Simmons 138).

This quote sounds very deep. It is a quote that was being said by the mom of this girl. I think this quote is truth because when you let a person hurt you twice is really dumb. 

Final Thoughts

I really like this book I make so many connections and in a way I can see solution o my problems and future problems. I like how the author is super good explaining the chapter and showing you. It makes me really see the person's point of view and in a way feel what they feel. One thing I also want to mention because I think is super important is how the author writes for a specific audience. I really like this because you get to think a lot deeper and make more connections.

This week's meme 

I thought about this song when I was reading all this stories.. Brave

I also thought that this was a good quote and I connected to maybe what the author is trying to show.