Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Pages: 160-219
Every girl has fell in love when they were in school, this year, Marilyn and Kate did. On Marilyn's first game as a cheerleader, she met Wes Porter's brother, who had cancer and had lost one of his legs. Marilyn thought he was really cute but never admitted it. Wes invited Marilyn and her friends to his house for a party. Marilyn accepted and was very excited about it because it was her first party with all of the popular guys and though she was finally going to have her first kiss. For her surprise, Wes' brother, Tyler, was there! Everyone was in the basement and Tyler was there. He was really nice with Marilyn when Wes started bothering her and she started to get excited. Everyone started to play spin the bottle and in one of the turns, the bottle pointed to Marilyn and in the middle of Wes and Catherine, one of Marilyn's friends. Everyone said it was pointing to Tyler even though he wasn't actually playing. Tyler didn't had a problem with kissing Marilyn but Wes got angry and said that it wasn't fair so he said it was his turn to kiss Marilyn. She was upset because she really wanted her first kiss to be with Tyler but Wes ruined it. Wes kissed her but she realized it wasn't a big deal, he barely touched her lips. On the other hand, Kate was going with her dad every weekend to his basketball practice. There, she met with Andrew O'Shea, one boy from school. They started to spend a lot of time together, watching the practice and Kate fell in love with him. Both girls started having new feelings and new experiences.
Now everyone cares about what we wore and sometimes they don't realize that the most important thing is what we wore on our inside. "Marilyn wished her mom had dressed I'm seat and tennis shoes like all the other mothers…" Marilyn should appreciate that her mother was there and shouldn't care about her outfit, that should be the last thing she notices. I hate when my parents don't assist to one of my basketball game or a violin concert because I don't have a person who I care to show them my effort. The only thing that matters is that your parents care and support you.
"Marilyn wondered if looking at people playing sports made him sad. Although for all she knew he could play whatever spot he wanted to." Ty had cancer and one of his legs was fake. I had read "The Star Won't Go Out", which is a book about a girl with cancer. I had learned that their lives are really hard but that they live more than the people who actually are healthy and don't have to worry of death. No one has the right to tell them what they can do or cannot do. I'm sure Tyler could do whatever he wants to if he puts effort in it.
Our society is so rotten nowadays that we even care about what we wear, people judge others just because of their outfit without giving them a chance. Our society is so rotten nowadays that people don't care about love affections, they think a kiss not a big deal, when a kiss can make every single feeling turn on. Our society is so rotten nowadays that people think that cancer people are unable to do things and think that a pretty hair can make them bigger things. People should think about their thought because then they become actions and every action has its consequence.
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