BOOK

I finally got to reading my book and weather this assignment has been graded or not i am doing it now. I am looking at the social aspect of school. Some key points I am searching for are peer pressure, relationships, social status and roles. And so a book relating to my topic.... I read Simply Alice written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor . i remember someone recommending it to me a while ago and thought of it now. It is an easy read book, but fit in well with my topic of interest.

Simply Alice is a book about the challenges on the road through adolescence. it is one book in a series of many. it stars a girl named Alice (as you could have guessed.) she is a ninth grade student. Shes gets so caught up in all her school work and that causes problems for her. Throughout the book Alice's priorities change and she ends up sabotaging the relationship she has between her friends and her boyfriend. Heres the place in the book where everything goes wrong and the character is forced to make a decision that will somehow be the solution to all her problems. Due to the drama she ends up looking at relationships in a whole new perceptive. She finds a new secret admirer over emails and the romance lurks once again. Throughout this book there is a sense of what lengths girls will go to for a boy, there is this idea of importance to our self presentation. The main character, Alice feels different about her self from start to finish. she starts out being confident and she forgets what is important to her. When she loses the friends she had she then realizes how much she loved and needed them. After solving her problem she no only feels self conscious and she no longer takes her friends for granted. this book is pretty much a typical high school story. It is a book i can defiantly relate too with my own experiences and what i have seen. because maybe We are similar to Alice in the way that we are just trying to fight through the bumpy road of adolescence.

This book inflicts a variety of teenage issues. The major themes of this book are all one that are useful to me with the topic i chose. i was recommended this book somewhere and i remember the person saying how it really just focuses in on one certain character. i was not sure if that was a good thing or not until i read the book. Now i know that it focusing on one character allowed me to get more details into her life. when Alice starts going out with her boyfriend she describes the butterfly feelings she gets, then later she describes her feeling of stress. It is a lot like what Anna said when i interviewed her about her school experience, she remember the complications of boyfriend relationships. i think it will be a good piece to add in with my research.

another book i just found and thought just maybe might be interesting for this occasion is PREP... but we will see about that one.