5th Period: 7th Grade Essay #3
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In the short story” Sammy’s Choice” by Mallory Lefland a girl is faced with being friends with someone she doesn’t want to be friends with all because of a dare she got at a party.
To get to party Sammy (Samantha) and Crissie (Christina) lied to there parents, Sammy said “yeah mom, I’ll be sleeping at Crissie’s tonight.” Then Crissie called her mom and said, “I am sleeping over at Sammy’s so I’ll call you in the morning when you need to come and get me.” Then they left for the party that Tony was throwing. Tony is one of there friends.
At the party Sammy and Crissie played a game called Never Have You Ever and what happens is, you have 5 fingers in the air and you say things you have not done and when you put the fingers down you get a dare, and that game Sammy had lost so she got a dare the dare was that, “you need act like you want to be friends Lucy at school on Monday. Then on Friday you need to tell her off.” The dare came from Scott another one of there friends.
When Sammy was writing a letter to Lucy and she started with “dear Lucy” then she couldn’t think of anything else to write. The next day t school Sammy talked with Lucy at lunch time, her popular group laughed at her while she was talking they could not believe she did it.
In conclusion you can see that a dare can be a lot in your life, because if you don’t do it you will get picked on for the rest of your life.
sorry the frist one i did got messed up so here is the new one
May 9, 2007
The story “Sammy’s Choice” by Mallory Leflant, shows that you shouldn’t let people pressure you in to doing something you don’t want to do.
In the book, Sammy, a popular high school girl, gets dared after losing the game, never have I ever, to pretend to become friends with “loser Lucy” The geek in her school, and at the end of the week, tell her about the dare. What started out as a dare, turned into much more when Sammy’s friend Chrissie told her that she herd loser Lucy and her friend Eve talking in the bathroom. Lucy said “you are one of her best friends” and told Eve that maybe “she could sit with us too.” As Sammy thought about this she realized that she “didn’t want to hurt Lucy’s feelings by telling her about the dare.” Sammy knew that she had to do something about it. Sammy was starting to actually become friends with Lucy and didn’t was to hurt her or the people who love her.
“Loser Lucy” and her friend Eve were in a fight, and Sammy felt responsible for it. Lucy thought that she and Sammy were best friends, and Eve was starting to become a little jealous of Lucy’s new friend.
Sammy knew that telling Lucy about the dare was wrong, but she “didn’t really have a choice in the matter.” So instead of doing the right thing, she wrote a letter saying “this was all a dare that started at a party,” it also informed Lucy that Sammy had to “act like her friend” and tell her about the dare at the end of the week. She ended the letter with, “I hope you enjoyed your week of fame because it’s up.” Sammy was almost crying when she wrote the letter. She couldn’t believe what her friends could make her do, she put the letter in Lucy’s locker before school started, but couldn’t watch her read it. After, Scott told Sammy that when Lucy read it she cried. On the inside Sammy was crying also.
Things like this don’t only happen in the story “Sammy’s Choice” they happen in real life too. People get pressure into doing something that they don’t want to do, and it doesn’t always turn out the way we want it to in the end. The way you can try stop this, is by being strong, and not doing anything you don’t want to do.
Popularity? Or true friends?
The short story “Sammy’s
Choice”, by Mallory Lefland, is
about doing what you believe
in. In the story Sammy had to do a dare just to have “popular” friends. She ended up realizing that what she was doing was wrong, but she “needed” her friends and didn’t stop.
Sammy went to a “popular” party and got a dare. “You need to act like you want to be friends with Lucy at school on Monday. Then on Friday you need to tell her off.” Lucy is a “loser” and if Sammy wanted to stay “popular’ she had to go along with it. Sammy didn’t like the idea but she just thought that it’s only a week so it couldn’t be that bad.
To make things worse Sammy’s friend, Scott, had an idea. “I usually email my friends after school…” Sammy didn’t want to email Lucy, and she didn’t have to either, but if she wanted her “popular” friends she “had” to. Unfortunately the emails made Lucy think they were becoming more of friends.
Friday finally came which meant Sammy had to tell Lucy off. Sammy didn’t want to, but her friends wouldn’t like her if she didn’t, plus Lucy would still be her friend if she didn’t. “I can’t believe I am friends with people who could make me do something like this.” Sammy couldn’t handle watching so Scott did. Lucy cried, and on the inside, so did Sammy.
People shouldn’t do things just for popularity and friends. Most of the time when you do you, and someone, else will get hurt.
Once You Get it You Don’t Always Like It
In the short story, “Popularity” by Adam Bagdasarian, the narrator (a kid who wants to become popular) finds out how to become popular and the consequences of being in the “upper class”.
In the beginning of the story, the narrator is looking in on the popular kid’s group that consists of Sean Owens, Mitch Brockman and many other kids. “Sean Owens can run the fifty yard dash in six seconds, throw a baseball two hundred feet and a football forty yards,” this is the narrator commenting on how athletic the most popular kid in the grade is. This explains how Sean Owens earned his position in the “club”and how kids can be popular.
The narrator wants to find out his way into the “club” so he walked over to the popular group to see what they were doing. “I noticed every time Mitch said something funny he eyed Sean Owens to see if he was laughing”. The narrator realized that humor would help him make his way into the group.
The Narrator figured out how to become popular so he used his knowledge. Towards the end of the story, Mitch cracked a joke about the narrator and he thought of a humorous comeback. The narrator said,“ Someone needs a mirror. You look like a canary… Boys I give you tweety bird.” The narrator made everyone laugh and that was the last time Mitch was in that group. When you are popular there are consequences. In this case, the narrator’s one humorous remark put Mitch next to the two Allans, who used to hang out with the narrator (before he was popular).
The idea in “Popularity” isn’t just an idea in a book. In real life kids will tell the funniest jokes to become popular. Kids want popularity but once they have it they don’t always like it in the case of the narrator. Later on the narrator says he does not trust any of the kids. There are consequences to popularity too. You don’t always like the things you do or the friends you are forced to have. “Popularity” relates to real life.
Essay #3.
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In the short story “Sammy’s Choice” by Mallory Lefland, Sammy falls into a peer pressure trap and goes in for a dare deeper than she should. After lying to parents and playing a game of never have I ever, it all came down to that one dare. Will Sammy be able to complete her dare and tell off “Loser Lucy” at the end of the week or will she fail her friends?
After Sammy calls up her mom and tells her that she will be sleeping over at Chrissy’s house she hangs up the phone and gives it to Chrissy. Chrissy does the same, and they go to a small party at one of there friend, Tony’s house. The girls get there and meet up with their friends Tony and Scott. All four of them start to play a game of Never Have I Ever, Sammy was the first to lose to get out when someone said “never have I ever cheated on a test.” Sammy at that point remembered the math test she cheated a few days before. When you lose the game you get a dare, Sammy’s was to hang out and pretend to be friends with a girl named “Loser Lucy.” Sammy couldn’t believe that her friends would do that to her. Sammy calls up a girl from school named Julie, to find out Lucy’s locker number. “Hey Julz, it’s Sammy, do you know Loser Lucy’s locker number?” “Yeah its number 847”, “thanks Julz see ya at school tomorrow.” Sammy’s plan was in action. She started with writing a letter,
Dear Lucy,
I couldn’t think of what to say next. It’s kind of weird to write I want to be your friend end out of the blue. I continued.
Hi! I’ve wanted to get to know you for a while. Want to sit with me at lunch? This way I wouldn’t have to deal with her alone; I’d have my friends there for support.
There’ll be a seat saved for you.
Samantha
As the days in the week had gone by Sammy started to realize that Lucy is actually really nice. After school on Thursday Tony and Scott came over to Sammy’s house. Then they started to talk. “Ya know what I love to do when I get home from school?” Tony said, “What” Scott replied, “I love to email people don’t you?” “Yeah I do.” “Ugh” Sammy said they made Sammy go and start up her computer when she logged into her email she started to send Lucy friendly emails and Lucy sent friendly responses back. In school Sammy had to always invite Lucy to come over and sit with her table at lunch. Lucy had talked with Sammy about how she and some of Lucy’s friends had been a fight because they were mad that all of a sudden Lucy goes and hangs out with Sammy and eats lunch with the “popular” girls and boys. Sammy got more nervous as Friday approached with Sammy and Lucy becoming closer and closer Sammy didn’t know that she would be able to tell off Lucy; after all she had given her tips on clothes, make-up and even how to solve problems that she had with her friends.
It was the end of the week and Sammy knew what that meant breaking a new and strong friendship with a girl that Sammy never thought would be possible Sammy grew to actually like Lucy and believe that she wasn’t loser like everyone had thought. Sammy went to school and put the note in locker 847 once again this time it read,
Dear Lucy,
This was all a dare that started at a party. I had to act like your friend and then tell you all about it at the end of the week. You were the perfect person because nobody would ever believe that I, Samantha Johnson, would want to hang out with you. I never have wanted or will want to be your friend. I hope you enjoyed your week of fame because it’s up.
Samantha
‘I was almost crying when I wrote this note. I can’t believe that I have friends that would make me do things like that’ that’s all Sammy thought of when she wrote the note to Lucy. Scott said that he saw Lucy crying when she had read the note. ‘I was almost crying on the inside too.
In conclusion Sammy wished that she had never taken her dare and had realized that she was more interested and making her “friends” happy and worrying about her reputation than she was of her true friend. Sammy kept giving into her peers she could have said no at any time but she was to concerned that she would loose her friends. In the short story “Sammy’s Choice” by, Mallory Lefland it teaches you that you cant give into your peers and do things you don’t want to do and you shouldn’t worry more of your reputation because of who your friends are.
That everybody should be treated fairly
Do you treat people the way you want to be treated? If you don’t you should because in the story “Nobody Stole Jason Grayson” This one girl named Abby Tad. She is a very shy quite and nice person but, just because she is shy, nice and quite people think that she is weird so she dose not get very much respect.
In one part of the story Abby was called in to the office with two other people, Sloppy Joe and a sixth grade girl that was absent the day of the stolen photo. When Abby and the two other people were sitting in the office waiting, Abby realized that the three of them were considered the nobodies. “On Friday, the Principle called every student into the office one by one to see what they know about the stolen photo. I was in the last group of kids, I guess were the nobodies.”
While Abby was sitting in the office waiting to be questioned “That’s when to door opened and Jason Grayson walked in… I raised my hand to wave, sending papers fluttering to the gray industrial carpet. I swear that Jason muttered Dork under his breath.” Jason could have bin nicer to her and said something like do you need any help at picking up the papers.
When Abby was in the office with the principle being questioned “So, Amy do you know anything about the missing photo?” “My name is Abby!” Abby must have felt bad about that because, who would you feel if a principle or a teacher called you by the wrong name? I bet you would feel bad too.
If every person in the world treated people the way they want to be treated then not so many people in the world would be mad or sad. So next time you about to do something to someone think, how would I feel if someone did this to me? Then make your decision.
“Think Before you Trust”
In the story, “Sammy’s Choice,” by Mallory Lefland, there are kids who should not trust all their friends. In the story, some popular kids went to a party and played a game called five fingers. Sammy lost the game so she was dared to be friends with Lucy for a week, and then at the end of the week Sammy had to tell Lucy it was just a dare. So some of the kids had to learn not to trust all their “friends.”
Lucy and Sammy talked a lot by email during their one week friendship. After Sammy responded to Lucy by email, Sammy said to herself, “I started to think she wasn’t that terrible.” Lucy thought that she could trust this. But if you really think of the situation then you may wonder. It is strange when one of the most popular kids in the school hangs out with one of the most unpopular kids overnight. Sammy has to keep watching Lucy for any signs of Lucy not trusting her, because otherwise the dare would not work properly.
All throughout the week long dare, Scott was watching every move that Sammy made. He wanted to make sure that Sammy was doing the whole dare and to make sure that she was not cheating. One day during lunch Scott was looking at Sammy a lot so Lucy asked, “Is there something going on between you and Scott?” “No he’s always like that, Lucy,” Sammy said. Now Lucy was really getting suspicious and she thought that something was really up with Sammy and the Dare. From now on Sammy would have to continue to look for signs of Lucy not trusting her anymore. Sammy also had to look not suspicious for the dare to work well. Lucy shouldn’t trust all her friends.
Eve is another example of a kid who shouldn’t always trust her friends. Eve was one of Lucy’s best friends until the dare happened. Eve was getting mad at Lucy because she used to always hang out with Lucy but now Lucy had a new best friend. Lucy talked to Sammy about Eve and Lucy told Sammy, “She’s mad because she thinks that I ditched her. She thinks that I can’t sit with anyone else.” Eve is not trusting Lucy as a friend anymore because Eve thinks Lucy ditched her for Sammy. Eve does not think that she can trust Lucy as a friend anymore.
In this story, there were examples of kids who shouldn’t have trusted their friends. In real life you should watch for signs of a good friendship.
Always saying, “If something can go wrong, it will,” is not always the most positive way to look at life. And in the short story “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” by Bruce Coville, the characters realize that if you think positively, things usually work out.
Some people believe in luck. Some people think that there are lucky things and unlucky things. That there are lucky people and unlucky people. And then there are those who do believe in luck, but are positive they just don’t have any. Murphy was one of those people.
In the story “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”, the main character, Murphy, lived his life unlucky. It wasn’t that bad things always happened to him, but really he just felt unlucky. Never thinking positively, Murphy lived an unlucky life.
And just like how on a steaming hot day you would jump into a pool at the sight of one, when Murphy saw a lucky opportunity, he dove for it. So when his crush, Tiffany, asked him to be in a drama club skit with her, he said yes, forgetting that he has a horrible case of stage fright. Just as always, Murphy found himself becoming “a dead man” instead of looking at the situation from another angle.
As the performance neared, Murphy decided to just “pray for a meteor to strike” before the day of the show. He went to rehearsals with Tiffany, Laurel, and some other kids in the drama club and actually started to enjoy it. But when the day of the show arrived, there was nothing else to do but “sweat and worry.” Finally, the curtains were pulled back and the skit began. Unfortunately, it didn’t go exactly according to plan and the whole thing was basically ruined when Murphy started choking and had to have the Heimlich maneuver performed on him in front of the whole theater (that wasn’t really in the script.)
After Murphy arrived at the ER and was settled in the emergency room, people started to visit. And when Tiffany visited the following day she brought an unexpected guest, her boyfriend. But when Tiffany left, and Murphy started feeling bad for himself, “a soft voice” took him by surprise. As she smiled “shyly”, Laurel entered through the door and Murphy noticed how “pretty she is when she smiles”. “Life may not be so bad after all”.
Murphy’s life was never so bad. He wasn’t “born dead or with two heads” and he never had to go through anything that terrible. He just thought everything was that terrible and thought that if something could go wrong, it could. If everyone just looked at things positively, they would all usually work out. Although he ruined the skit, had to be rushed to the hospital, and found out his crush had a boyfriend, in the end he realized life wasn’t so bad. After all, he still knew a girl with a very pretty smile.
Being Surprised.
In the short story, “What’s the Worst that Could Happen?” by Bruce Corville, the
main character, Murphy Murphy, is pleasantly surprised. Murphy’s Law states that things
will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. But for Murphy Murphy
even without a chance things go wrong. And right when he thinks he’s going down the
worst road in his life, he takes an unexpected turn.
First off, Murphy Murphy has stage fright. But he also has a crush on Tiffany. So
when Tiffany asks him to perform in a skit with her, he answers with a yes. And when the
night of the skit comes, everything is going fine until Murphy Murphy forgets to untie his
shoelace. He falls over his shoelace and lands center stage. But to Murphy Murphy’s
surprise “the laugh begins.” “Some brilliant portion” of his brain remembered that this
was supposed to be a comedy, and in comedy’s you’re supposed to be funny. Right
when he thought he had ruined his life for the last time, he seemed to find a way to save
himself.
He seemed to save himself only until the end of the play when he tried to be
funny, and ended up choking on Hostess cupcakes. To make it even worst he then fell
off the stage and had to be rushed to the hospital. Tiffany visited him there, and
surpriseingly brought her boyfriend. “Something inside me wanted to die when she
introduced him. To make things worst (and what doesn’t,)” Murphy Murphy now knew
that what he had been doing for the past few weeks had been for nothing. And that he
had never had a chance with Tiffany. Even if he had tried.
But if Murphy Murphy really liked her trying wouldn’t have made things any worst.
If anything they would have become better. And they did, just not in a way he thought
they would. And right then Laurel walks into the room. “I’ve never noticed how pretty
she was when she smiles.” And so Murphy Murphy realizes more. That maybe you don’t
always get what you want. And maybe life has some unexpected surprises every now
and then. But maybe life is better than you think.
And that’s the same for all of us. Things don’t always turn out as horrible as we
might think they will. And what would life be without surprises for us every once in a
while. And like Murphy Murphy said “I think life may not be so bad after all.
In Mallory Lefland’s short story called “Sammy’s Choice”, the author talks about school status and peer pressure and how it can control you life if you don’t try to stop it.
In the story one of Sammy’s friends, Scott, dares her to be friends with Loser Lucy. Scott wanted Sammy to tell her off at the end of the week. The next day Sammy goes into school early and slips the note into her locker. While she waits in the hall, Scott comes up and asks “Do you know locker?” She replies “Yeah, locker number 847.” When Lucy opens her locker, out falls the note. It says “ Hi, I’ve wanted to get to know you for a while. Want to sit with me at lunch? That way I wouldn’t have to deal with her alone; I’d have my friends there for support. They’ll be a seat saved for you.” After she finished the note she closed her locker and disappeared.
At the end of the week Sammy doesn’t want to go up to Lucy and tell her if was a dare because over the week they got close. Sammy decides to just write a note saying it was a dare. The next day she leaves the note in Lucy’s locker. At the end of school, Scott comes up to Sammy and tells her that Lucy is outside crying. On the inside Sammy is crying too.
The story talks about how peer pressure and school status take over a girl’s life and make her lose a friend. No one should let others push them around or tell you what to do.
In the story Sammy’s Choice by Mallory Lefland, the main character Sammy gives into peer pressure that leads her to hurt herself as well as others.
A popular high school girl named Sammy found herself in serious trouble at school after a joke went astray. Sammy was dared to pretend to be friends with a girl that was labeled “loser Lucy.” Then she had to tell Lucy off at the end of the week, ending the dare. All this started in a game, but immediately after she lost her friends told her “you need to act like you want to be friends with Lucy at school Monday. Then on Friday you need to tell her off.” And so it began.
Soon into the week of manipulating Lucy into being Sammy’s friend, things got a little out of hand. Chrissie, Sammy’s real best friend went up to her and said “I overheard Lucy trying to talk to Eve in the bathroom. She thinks that you are one of her best friends and she told Eve that maybe she could sit with us too. Two losers! This is hilarious. This turned out even better than I imagined,” she laughed, and Sammy instantly regretted accepting dare.
Sammy realized that she had to change something about the dare so that it wouldn’t hurt Lucy, but how? There was no way she could choose Lucy over her popularity, friends, boys and reputation that she worked so hard for. When Friday finally arrived Sammy had to idea how to avoid fulfilling the dare and telling Lucy off. So she went ahead and told her by writing a letter to Lucy that said she wasn’t truly her friend and it was all just a dare. Sammy slipped the letter into Lucy’s locker. She felt absolutely horrible and wanted to be Lucy’s friend, but she couldn’t, not by a long shot. Later in the day, Sammy was informed that Lucy was crying after she read the note, “I was crying on the inside too”Sammy thought to herself when she heard the news. After Sammy wrote it, she wondered what kind of real friends make you do such horrible things. She concluded, no true friend would pressure you into doing something wrong and cruel.
In the story Sammy’s Choice the characters learn that a true friend won’t pressure you into doing something you don’t want to do. The characters demonstrated that giving into your peers can hurt others as well as yourself.
Peer Fear
Why do we smoke when we see our friends do it? Why do we buy the same shoes that everyone else is wearing just to be another to say, “I have the newest fashion statement?” And why do we stay in certain cliques and have a fear of spreading our friendships beyond our current friends. Easy. Peer pressure, the anxiety and stress to be accepted by people who surround us every day. Desperately to be liked and to be treated like the ones you admire. Tasks you must do and activates you must complete to be shown good enough to be social status royalty. You do things you don’t want to do and you abandon and stop what you used to love to reach an imaginary feeling of importance in your head that just says “Oh yeah, you are not dreaming, you are just this cool.” In the story “Sammy’s Choice” a girl named Sammy must make a difficult decision between popularity and a new friendship with another nice girl.
Sammy plays a game, which in the end she loses. This means she has to get a dare. The dare is to pretend to be the friend of an unpopular girl named Lucy. She is supposed to pretend to like Lucy all through the school week. Then, on Friday she is supposed tell her the truth, that it was all just a dare and she never really liked Lucy. It seems easy enough and in the beginning of the week; Sammy is pretty confident. But as the week goes on she starts to like Lucy for real. She starts thinking Lucy is a nice person and doesn’t deserve this. She starts feeling bad for what she is doing. She wants to stop and try to make everything right again, but she is afraid that her friends won’t like her anymore. She feels like she is “proving” herself good enough and that this whole dare is like a “ritual.” Her peers are pressuring her to do things she just doesn’t want to do.
In another part of the story, Scott, the one who dared Sammy to pretend to be Lucy’s friend asks Sammy if she is actually starting to like this “loser.” Sammy isafraid a to tell Scott the truth, that she is starting to like Lucy. She lies. She is afraid to tell her friends the truth thinking that if she did she would be “the laughing stock of the school.”
By the end of the story Sammy is very nervous about telling Lucy the truth. She doesn’t want to hurt Lucy’s feelings, and she really is starting to feel bad for her. The past week left a feeling in her that made her not want to break the news to Lucy. Sammy says “My friends won’t be my friends anymore,” Sammy fears that if she doesn’t do this peers won’t accept her anymore, she has trouble dealing with this conflict. She is afraid to choose a side and stick with it; she is full of anxiety and pressure of people wanting her to do things. She is afraid that if she doesn’t do exactly what her friends tell her to do they will immediately turn on her so she let’s them take control of her and does exactly what they say.
In the end, Sammy decides to put a hurtful letter in Lucy’s locker explaining the whole dare and how she never did or will like her. Lucy cries and on the inside Sammy does too. Why would Sammy do something on purpose that she knows will make her feel so bad? And, the peer pressure doesn’t even end; in fact it’s like a mild introduction for the real pressure. It just gets worse and worse. Sure, you can listen to them. You can hurt more people’s feelings and self-esteem. You can also give up everything that makes you who you are. And why not do things you don’t want to do and pretend to like and hate things just to impress others? Anyone who reads this should know it is wrong. Who would give up all originality to end up as a hurtful a person who doesn’t even recognize him or herself? Hopefully no one, because for though it may look like popularity, really there’s another word for it… it’s called Bully.
Being Surprised.
In the short story, “What’s the Worst that Could Happen?” by Bruce Corville, the main character, Murphy Murphy, is pleasantly surprised. Murphy’s Law states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. But for Murphy Murphy even without a chance things go wrong. And right when he thinks he’s going down the worst road in his life, he takes an unexpected turn.
First off, Murphy Murphy has stage fright. But he also has a crush on Tiffany. So when Tiffany asks him to perform in a skit with her, he answers with a yes. And when the night of the skit comes, everything is going fine until Murphy Murphy forgets to untie his shoelace. He falls over his shoelace and lands center stage. But to Murphy Murphy’s surprise “the laugh begins.” “Some brilliant portion” of his brain remembered that this was supposed to be a comedy, and in comedy’s you’re supposed to be funny. Right when he thought he had ruined his life for the last time, he seemed to find a way to save himself.
He seemed to save himself only until the end of the play when he tried to be funny, and ended up choking on Hostess cupcakes. To make it even worst he then fell off the stage and had to be rushed to the hospital. Tiffany visited him there, and surprisingly brought her boyfriend. “Something inside me wanted to die when she introduced him. To make things worst (and what doesn’t,)” Murphy Murphy now knew that what he had been doing for the past few weeks had been for nothing. And that he had never had a chance with Tiffany. Even if he had tried.
But if Murphy Murphy really liked her trying wouldn’t have made things any worst. If anything they would have become better. And they did, just not in a way he thought they would. And right then Laurel walks into the room. “I’ve never noticed how pretty she was when she smiles.” And so Murphy Murphy realizes more. That maybe you don’t always get what you want. And maybe life has some unexpected surprises every now and then. But maybe life is better than you think.
And that’s the same for all of us. Things don’t always turn out as horrible as we might think they will. And what would life be without surprises for us every once in a while. And like Murphy Murphy said “I think life may not be so bad after all.”
Don’t Know It ‘Till You Try It
In the story “Popularity” by Adam Bagdasarian, the main character learns that you can want something and work really hard for it, but once you get it you may not like it. He doesn’t know whether being popular is all that great until he actually is.
The main character plays the narrator in the story. The narrator and his “equally unpopular aqquantences” look for four leaf clovers while the popular guys laugh and joke around. That’s the narrator’s dream… to join the guys and make the most popular boy, Sean to laugh out loud. He knew he was funny, but he needed the courage and confidence. The narrator thought he would have the time of his life hanging out with the popular, away from the unpopular. He’d go to parties, movies, joke around… but who said all that would be fun?
The unpopular boys still look for four leaf, the narrator still wants to be popular. “I suddenly knew I could not stand another day at the bottom.” He had to make a move if he wants to be with the popular kids. He knew they wouldn’t come to him. So everyday he edged toward the popular group unnoticed. When he does, the funniest boy in the crowd makes fun of the narrator’s clothes. The narrator froze, then thought of a comeback. He slowly became popular. He had fun, everything he wished.
The narrator finally became popular after all the hard work and panicking but he “didn’t trust one of them.” He had fun, but he knew his new friends couldn’t keep secrets. They weren’t real friends, more like the props. If he did one thing wrong, he could be “out” in a second. One word, or the way he dresses can make him go back to finding four leaf clovers. His popularity is a risk, a gamble. The same thing that happened to the old ‘funniest kid.’ “I was standing on sand.” He thoguht it would be fun, but the fun could end… who knows?
You may want something a lot and other people may think its fun, but people have different reactions to that something. You can have a different hobbies. Some people may like one sport more than the other or vice versa. Something may seem great when you watch it but you’ll never know how it will be until you actually try it out yourself.
Popularity
In the story popularity, by Adam Bagdassirar, it shows that sometimes popularity is good and sometimes it can be bad. The story shows this in many ways.
In the beginning of the story the “nerds” are arguing about a 4 leaf clover, Allen Shipmen says, “Got one” Allen Gold swipes the clover from his hand, “1, 2, 3,”he said throwing the clover to the ground. “There are 4 there that was a 4 leaf clover. Pick it up” “you pick it up” “you” “you” This shows that sometimes it is good to be popular because nerds fight a lot about weird things like 4 leaf clovers.
During the story, the narrator is thinking about the popular kid, Sean Owens, “Sean Owens was the best kid in the 4th grade. He was one of the humblest, handsomest, strongest, fastest, and most clear thinking 10 year olds god has ever placed on the face of this Earth.” This shows that is good to be popular because a lot of kids look up to you.
In the middle of the story Mitch (a popular kid) tells a joke to the other popular kids, “I noticed every time Mitch told a joke he eyed Sean to see if he was laughing,” That is why sometimes being popular can be hard. There are always expectations to live up to.
As you can see in the book popularity you learn that popularity can be hard, fun, good, and sometimes bad.
In the short story, “Popularity” by Adam Bagdasarian, a ten year old boy really wants to be popular. He discovers that no matter how badly he wants to be popular, even if it looks completely amazing, it might not be that great after all.
In the beginning of the story, the narrator is an outcast, wanting to be popular. He and his two equally un-popular acquaintances, the Allans, spent their recesses together looking for four leaf clovers, despite the fact that none of them could stand each other. On one day, the narrator was feeling particularly courageous. He looked across the playground and “gazed at the popular boys in admiration”. It was then that decided that he really wanted to become part of that group. “I suddenly knew that I could not stand another day at the bottom. I wanted to be part of the noise and laughter. I wanted, I needed, to be popular.”
For four recesses, four days in a row, the narrator stood outside the group of noisy, laughing popular boys waiting to “make his move”. On the fourth day, Mitch Brockman, the jokester of the group, wore a yellow shirt and a yellow pair of pants. Mitch cracked a joke about the narrator, so the narrator said that Mitch looked like “Tweety Bird”. “In an instant, Mitch Brockman became Tweety Bird, and I, and absolute nonentity became a somebody. And then somebody special.” Then, at that moment, all of the popular boys thought the narrator was extremely funny–the new jokester of the group. He was officially popular.
The narrator had high expectations about being popular, and most of them came true. He had a whole lot more friends than he had before, and he was having fun with them. “…I had more friends than I knew what to do with. And I did not trust any one of them, because I knew I was standing on sand and was only a yellow shirt and pair of pants away from the oak tree where the two Allans were still looking for four leaf clovers.” He ended up having a lot of friends, and not really liking any one of them, because he knew that none of the friendships were true and that none of his friends really liked him for who he was.
The narrator worked really hard for something that he really wanted. He thought it would be totally great, but, it didn’t turn out to be exactly what he wanted. He ended up having a lot of friends, and not really liking any one of tem, because he knew that none of the friend ships were true. If you work hard enough for something you really want, you’ll probably get it. But no matter how much you want something, and no matter how great you think it’ll be, it doesn’t mean that once you get it you’ll like it.
Popularity or Feelings?
In the story Sammys Choice, by Mallory Lefland, a popular girl, Sammy, gets dared by her popular friends. Her dare was not a nice one but none the less she accepted it to be popular.
In the short story,Sammy gets invited to Tony’s house with a couple of friends. Sammy told her mother she was sleeping at her girlfriend’s house, she lied to go to Tony’s house with the popular kids. When she got there they played “Never Have I Ever”, in this game the loser has to take a dare. Sammy had lost and now she must be dared. “Everyone then got together to try to think of a dare. ‘We got it,’ Scott told me. I was nervous because Scott always thinks of the worst dares.” This shows that Sammy realizes her friends are mean, but she still wants to be friends with them to be popular. She took the dare to be cool.
Sammys dare was to pretend to want to be friends with a lozer, Lucy, and then at the end of the week she had to tell her off. When sammy first started the dare she wrote a letter to Lucy. ” I thought the best way to start the dare off would be to write her a letter. The less time I had to spend with her, the less pain i had to suffer through.” Sammy thought Lucy was such a loser and she was embarassed by her. She was regreting the dare.
Sammy wrote Lucy e-mails every day, Lucy sat with her at lunch,Sammy started to like Lucy the loser. Then she had to tell her off. “I was almost crying when i wrote this.I cant believe I’m friends with people who could make me do something like this.” After telling Lucy off she realized that Lucy was a nice girl, and that she liked her. She knew then what she did was hurtfull and mean.
This story tells alot about popularity. When Sammy got dared she was all for it, but she learned to like Lucy. In the end when she had to dump Lucy, she realized she really hurt Lucys feelings. I think Sammy realized that real friendship is much stronger than popularity. She knew, but did not want to admitt it to herself because she wanted to be popular. Sammy put her own intrests before someone else’s fellings.
In the short story called “Sammy’s Choice” by Mallory Lefland is about a group of kids who seem to be popular in this story.Main characters are Sammy,Scott,and Lucy. Scott and Sammy were hanging out one night with other friends, playing truth or dare. That’s when it happened. Sammy gets dared to be friends with Loser Lucy. Sammy has no choice but to do it. The dare was to become friends with Loser Lucy on Monday then blow her of on Friday. Sammy starts out the dare by writing a nice and friendly letter to Lucy.”I thought the best way to start the dare off would be to write her a letter. The less time I had to spend with her, the less pain i had to suffer through.”
Sammy decides to put the letter insie Lucy’s locker. Lucy recieves the letter that same day and starts reading it. Sammy had wrote to Lucy saying if she wanted to sit with her at lunch that day. Lucy was shocked,surprised,and confused. It was lunch time Sammy saw Lucy, it was the beginning of the dare. Sammy made sure she saved a sit right for Lucy. Lucy dediced to sit with them that same day. After all this Sammy thought it was going good so far. Scott knows that Sammy likes to email her friends right afterschool afterwards he makes her email Lucy.
Sammy seemed to start liking Lucy by the time. But she didn’t wanna loose her reputation it was coming close to friday. Lucy’s best friend didn’t like the fact that she kept sitting with the “populars.” She thought her and Sammy were like best friends forever now but she didn’t see it coming.
Scott had a feeling that Sammy was starting to like Lucy so he asked her if she was starting to like Lucy now. Of course she didn’t want to tell him the truth so she quickly lied and said no. Scott and all of Sammy’s other friends reminded her to blow of Loser Lucy by tomorrow.
That Night Sammy starts writing Loser Lucy a letter about how she was dared to be friends with her for a week. At the time she was writing this she had felt so bad that she started to cry. The next day was friday she tucked the letter inside Lucy’s locker. Sammy heard from Scott that she read it and began to cry the same way Sammy did too.
You Should never do something mean. Your reputation doesn’t always matter don’t hurt people cause you don’t know how bad you just made someone feel. Sammy knows and realized she did something really wrong. Friendship comes first then your own reputation. Leanr from your mistakes how bad you just made someone feel.