Summary:
Halley seems to have more feelings for Macon as the days go on. Everyday she looks forward to homeroom and P.E class just to see him. But whenever Halley talks to Scarlett about Macon, Scarlett always has a sad look on her face, maybe because it brings back memories of Michael. Halleys talk is the host of radio show that was now very popular in their town. One day he decided to tell an embarrassing story about a time when Halley was younger and she fell into a big mud puddle. Halley was so embarrassed and her mother told her father to leave Halley's life out of his show, even though she had written two books on she and Halley's relationship.
Macon had finally asked Halley out. He asked her to go to a party with him, and although Halley wasn't the type to party, she definately wasn't going to say no. She made Scarlett go with her. When they got to the party. there were tons of drunk kids smoking and hooking up and all kinds of things. She didn't see Macon there and eventually they left. When they got back, Macon was at her window and he told her how she stood him up, and she told him that he stood her up. Apparently Macon was upstairs (in the house party) with all the smokers, somewhere Halley didn't want to go.
Halley's dad made her mow the lawn, which was a difficult task because their lawn was very tricky. It has all kinds of obstacles that made it hard to mow. Macon stopped by and helped her mow the lawn, because he was a part of a group that mowed lawns in the neighborhood. That's when Halley's parents met Macon and Halley's dad already liked him because he mowed the lawn perfectly. Halley's mother, on the other hand, was a bit skeptical.
Scarlett and Halley were at the Zip Mart, a local market they both worked at. Scarlett called Halley to the bathroom and she revealed a pregnancy stick with the positive sign on it. All Halley could say was "no way!". Halley was in denial, and she told her those pregnancy tests were always wrong. But Scarlett told her uit was the 3rd one she's taken, a test cant be wrong three different times. Scarlett told Halley she and Michael had sex for the first time the day before he died. Scarlett told her mother about her being pregnant and her mother, Marion scheduled her an appoitment for the doctors the next day to get an abortion.
Scarlett went to her doctors appointment the next day and around 3rd period, Halley got called to the office. Her "mother" was on the phone, which was actually scarlett. she asked halley to pick her up from the clinic because she couldnt go through with it, she couldnt get an abortion. So hally and macon skipped 3rd period to pick up scarlett and after that they cruised around and hung out. When halley got home, she found out her mom had seen her near the mall during school hours and she was grounded for a month. her mom also called scarletts mom, who then found out that scarlett never went through with the abortion. She was keeping the baby.
Quote:
"I mean, of course its nice to have someone thats all yours, that uncondtional love, but with being a mother there are responsibilities: financial, emotional, physical. It will affect her education, her future, everything. Its not a smart decision to take all that on now." (Dessen 120)
Reaction: Halleys mother was telling this to halley and i couldn't agree more with what she was saying. I feel that by the author including that quote, she was speaking out to all the teenage girls who are reading the book and might be considering having a baby or who are pregnant and don't know whether to keep the baby or not. I think that this is something that really needs to be told to young girls because there are too many girls who are pregnant now and maybe if they had that kind of guidance, they wouldnt be making those decisions. Those girls dont think about the responsibilities of having a baby, they only think about how fun it will be to have a baby of their own and how cute they are, but all of that isn't as important as actually taking care of a child, having someone's life depend on you.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Someone Like You (Pgs 1-60)
Summary:
It all began with the main character Halley at "Sisterhood Camp", when she got a phone call from her best friend Scarlett at two in the morning. Michael Sherwood, Scarlett's boyfriend, had died in a motorcycle accident. Scarlett was always the strong one, the one who Halley depended on, but now it was the other way arouund. She asked Hally to come home, she needed her. Hally called her mother who was a therapist and asked her to pick her up. Halley says that she and her mother have always had a close relationship, like bestfriends. And most of her mom's books (her mother writes novel about coping witha teenage daughter) are about how good of a relationship they have. But ever since summer started, their relationship was going downhill.
Hally's mother picked her up from the camp the next day. When she got home, she went straight to scarlett's house. Scarlett had streaks of tears coming down her face, she looked like she had been crying all day. Halley then flashed back to a time, earlier in the summer, when she, scarlett, and a girl named Ginny (who was famous for "getting around" with the players on the football team) would hang out everyday. That summer is when Halley started growing up. She had smoked her first cigarette (apparently all the kids where they live do it) and she hung around the pool with boys a lot and drank alcohol.
One of Michael's friends, Macon, was over scarlett's house, passed out on the bed. Apparently he wasn't taking michael's death very well. At the funeral, it was pooring down raining and when they asked him if he wanted a ride, he declined, and it was clear by his face that he had been crying. School started and on the first day of school, Halley had a real conversation with Macon. They have gym together, which she looks forward to everyday, and she's starting to like him.
Quote: "but this was the New Me, someone I was evolving into with every hot and humid long summer day. I learned to smoke cigarettes, drank my first beer, got a deep tan, and double-pierced my ears as I began to drift, almost imperceptibly at first, from my mother" (Dessen 18).
Reaction: This quote really stuck out to me because I can relate to what Halley was saying. I haven't done the things she talks about, but i see it happening around me A LOT with teen girls. When they're "growing up" they start to do things (usually bad) that they think everyone else is doing, like smoking and drinking. And alot of the times, when girls are in their teenage years, they start to become less close with their mothers. Also I thought it was interesting how, within the 1st chapter, the character already reveals that she is evolving and maturing and growing up.
It all began with the main character Halley at "Sisterhood Camp", when she got a phone call from her best friend Scarlett at two in the morning. Michael Sherwood, Scarlett's boyfriend, had died in a motorcycle accident. Scarlett was always the strong one, the one who Halley depended on, but now it was the other way arouund. She asked Hally to come home, she needed her. Hally called her mother who was a therapist and asked her to pick her up. Halley says that she and her mother have always had a close relationship, like bestfriends. And most of her mom's books (her mother writes novel about coping witha teenage daughter) are about how good of a relationship they have. But ever since summer started, their relationship was going downhill.
Hally's mother picked her up from the camp the next day. When she got home, she went straight to scarlett's house. Scarlett had streaks of tears coming down her face, she looked like she had been crying all day. Halley then flashed back to a time, earlier in the summer, when she, scarlett, and a girl named Ginny (who was famous for "getting around" with the players on the football team) would hang out everyday. That summer is when Halley started growing up. She had smoked her first cigarette (apparently all the kids where they live do it) and she hung around the pool with boys a lot and drank alcohol.
One of Michael's friends, Macon, was over scarlett's house, passed out on the bed. Apparently he wasn't taking michael's death very well. At the funeral, it was pooring down raining and when they asked him if he wanted a ride, he declined, and it was clear by his face that he had been crying. School started and on the first day of school, Halley had a real conversation with Macon. They have gym together, which she looks forward to everyday, and she's starting to like him.
Quote: "but this was the New Me, someone I was evolving into with every hot and humid long summer day. I learned to smoke cigarettes, drank my first beer, got a deep tan, and double-pierced my ears as I began to drift, almost imperceptibly at first, from my mother" (Dessen 18).
Reaction: This quote really stuck out to me because I can relate to what Halley was saying. I haven't done the things she talks about, but i see it happening around me A LOT with teen girls. When they're "growing up" they start to do things (usually bad) that they think everyone else is doing, like smoking and drinking. And alot of the times, when girls are in their teenage years, they start to become less close with their mothers. Also I thought it was interesting how, within the 1st chapter, the character already reveals that she is evolving and maturing and growing up.
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