Continuing on "The Pretty One"

I've gotten quite far the past few days in "The Pretty One".  So, first off,  Megan ends up noticing a guy that's in her school. his name is drew and she's in absolute love with him. He's so mysterious and different from the other guys that always look at the perfect girls with perfect bodies and perfect faces. Although Megan was far from perfect, he still talked to her and that just made her admire him even more. So as you may be wondering, she finally went to the Fall Festival with Simon. But, something bad happened..... Megan felt stunning for the first time in her life, and that was just because of some size 11 dress, makeup and hair done, and googly eyes from her sister and mom. That is, until she goes to the bathroom real quick and she hears two girls come in and she hears them talking about someone. She listens very attentively, then she realizes they were talking about her, and believe me, they weren't nice things. Once she couldn't take it anymore she ended up running outside of the bathroom and into the rain all the way home. But something stops her.. a car ramming into her body and nearly killing her. But she survives, although she still needs to get some surgery done.

There are so many Aha Moments that I come across in my book. There is one specific one that I mention and that's how Megan ended up getting in an accident from when she was at her schools Fall Festival. She got hurt really badly and needed some major surgeries. Megan knew that she was definitely not going to look the same anymore seeing as if her whole face and body got messed up. But she had an Aha Moment and realized that from now on, things were going to change for her. She just didn't know if they were going to be good or bad.

New Book "The Pretty One"

I'm currently reading a new book which is called "The Pretty One" by Cheryl Klam. So far in the book, there are three main characters which are Megan, Lucy and Simon. Megan, is the main main character because the book is in her point of view. Lucy is her sister, and she is another main character in the book since Megan talks about her. Then there's Simon, Megan's best friend. So far in the book, they have been hanging out a lot, obviously because their best friends. One connection that I can make towards this book is that I went through the same thing while I was in school, just not my sister. (BECAUSE SHE'S 20X OLDER THAN ME) (she's really old but not that old) *haha* But I would have the same  thoughts as Megan, but it would be with my best friend. But now I learn to accept the way I am. I just hope later on in the book, that Megan realizes it too.

Since I haven't really gotten to the climax of my book yet, I can't really say anything. But, there is one part in my book that I have emotion towards, and that is how she is going to the Fall Festival with Simon. In the book, Megan was talking about how she was going dress shopping with her sister and her dad. But her dad wasn't the best dad ever. He would always point out things to her that were not needed at times, and he wasn't as supportive as her mother is. Now keep in mind that Megan wasn't all that skinny. But when they went to the mall, I noticed that I could relate to the part that came up next in the book. Which was that she tried on a size 13 dress, and that didn't fit her because it was too small. But, another dress she had was a size 11 and she tried that one on and it fit her perfectly! That happened to me once when I was in the stores trying on dresses and let me tell you right now, it was one of the best feelings ever. But I could just feel how she was feeling because I've been through the exact same thing. If you can relate to what the character feels in the book. You can already tell your going to fall in love with it because you feel that it's such a perfect book. 

Workers' Rights Thoughts

"Fight for Fair Treatment: Don't Buy Nike is the article that I read. I think that the argument of the article is how the people in the sweatshops from getting abused and only getting paid $1.25 a day for working a full day. In the article it said, " In 2011, Steven Wright of The Associated Press reported physical and mental abuse at Nike factories. This abuse included kicking, slapping, throwing shoes at workers and making workers stand in the hot sun for making mistakes on the job." I think that it's very horrid of the people to do that to the workers because they are the ones that are basically creating the items, besides the machines of course. I also feel that it's a great idea that they are realizing the bad stuff that's happening and that they are putting a stop to it. One main thing that I was very surprised about is how they actually put them outside in the sun when they make any mistakes. That really got me mad because everyone makes mistakes and even when we make them, we improve on them and do better. It isn't really necessary to make them stand in the blazing hot weather just for one thing they made a mistake on. 

"The Sweatshop" is the poem that I read. I think that the argument is how the narrator (girl) is feeling like she is no longer a human being, she feels that she has turned into a machine when or because she is put through work and many hard things she has to deal with. If you read the poem, you notice that in stanza on, lines two to four, you can see she says,
 "That I often forget who I am.
I get lost in the frightful tumult 
My self is destroyed, I become a machine." 

The poem and the article is different because the article isn't very specific with the feelings and such. In the poem, you can feel the sadness and the way she tells how she doesn't feel human anymore, and like she feels as if she's just a machine. The poem for is more better because you can put yourself in her shoes in your mind when she expresses the emotions she has when she is going through the rough times and her explicit details on the things she says throughout the poem.