Best Friends Are Great People!

Authors Note: Friends are really good people. You should always respect them, and take their opinions with an open mind. Some people don't have any friend,and would not take my friends for granted.


Many kids all around the world have best friends. They do everything together, sing, dance, and go to parties with each other. Most of all have a good time with one another. In the book “Just for You to Know”, the author Cheryl Harness expresses how someone feels once they find the friend they have been looking for all these years. Carmie, a character in the book, is a very good example. The feeling like you have a best friend right at your side is one of the most amazing feelings in the world.

Sitting in the car with all of your seven brothers can be a very interesting ride. Especially being the only girl and the oldest, all of a sudden your dad pulls up to the cemetery and you all get out. Standing there you dad makes an announcement that your mom is having another baby, and your heart drops. Eyes as wide as can be, and mouth dropped open. You are so mad, but then the corner of your eye sees an old lady in the other corner of the small cemetery, and you wonder to yourself, did her best friend die? Then you realize you don’t have any friends, let alone a best friend; and your mother is expecting. This is all running through my mind, but I keep reading on anyways.

Still feeling shocked that she doesn’t have a best friend I keep thinking that I am so grateful that I have a bunch of friends. I put myself in the place of Carmie. Would I be mad that I had so many brothers, and not have any time for myself? Honestly I don’t know how I’d feel but the place I am in now, with all my friends, I would never give up. As I kept reading, the thought of me not having any friends, or not trusting my parents because I had lots of pressure on me, I’d be so grateful for a friend to keep me up with encouragement. Feeling so miserably for Carmie, I had to put the book down.

As I start picking up the book; finding where I left off, I turn the page and now my mouth drops open. Carmie’s mother dies in the kitchen with glass shattered everywhere! In the book the family is devastated, I would be too. Luckily, the new neighbor girl comes along with her family, and cheers her up. Carmie has finally had someone actually notice her. She doesn’t know what to think. Should she be happy that she has a friend or should she be upset because her mom dies? I wouldn’t know what to think either, and she still has a baby sister at the hospital that is alive. At the funeral her new friend Robin keeps her cheered up, and is at her side. Later on in the book Robin is still always at Carmen’s side going through the bad and good. This is the kind of best friend everyone always wants. Robin is truthfully a incredible friend.

Having a friend like Robin is a good feeling for Carmie. Carmie has never really had a close friend to cheer her up when she needs, and same for Robin. Cheryl Harness is a marvelous writer because she can convey people emotions into a book. Friends can give you an adventure, or you can create one with them. Feeling on top of the world because you have a close friend at your side is an incredible feeling.

Don't Hide, Come Out!

Author's Note: Can you imagine not being noticed in life? Not having friends, being tromped on, made fun of and not have enough confidence in yourself to think your beautiful the way you are?Well, this is the way Tookie feels in the novel Model Land by Tyra Banks.

Anxious people wait outside the mall outlet, waiting for the doors to open. It is five fourteen and the doors open right as the clock turns quarter after five in the morning. Rushing, scurrying, and zooming up and down the halls of the mall, are the sounds of teenagers and their moms trying to find that one and only superior dress for The Day-of-Discovery- except for Tookie that is. Tookie is a no one. In the book Model Land, the author Tyra Banks shows how some people in the world feel like they don’t exist; feeling like you don’t exist is the worst feeling in the world.

Looking around she sees that no one notices her, even when she is sitting in plain sight. In the middle of the hallways at school; people step on her, trip over her, and still not one person can see her. At that moment she heard a voice talking to her, but then Tookie realized it’s your younger sister nagging on her to do something for her sister Myrracle. She walks away, and all you hear is her high heels clomping behind until the sound disappears. Right then, Tookie strolls with a sigh to her corner and cries silently.

While Tookie is still crying in the book, I read on, I keep presuming to myself, what if this was me. I put myself to thought.  Of all the things in the world, having the feeling like you don’t exist is the worst feeling in the world. As I read on, I visualized myself in the place of Tookie. Tookie is an individual, just like me. Such a thought in my head makes me want to cry too. Even though this is a fiction story, I couldn’t picture myself without any friends. Being Tookie, I feel such warmth in my heart. People do realize these things when they read, but could I imagine how school would be? School would be a mess, Tookie has feelings for Theophilus, and I have feelings for friends, I would be so devastated if they had no heart for me as like Tookie. That would be my breaking point.

On top of not being treated well, Tookie has feelings like no other. Tookie has a miserable life, feeling like she isn’t pretty. Her sister means everything to her, but when I put it into words, I love my sister too! I wouldn’t know what the sensation would be if my sister was way more popular and got all the attention. It wouldn’t be a pretty sight. My mother gives both me and my sister equal love. If there was ever a moment in my life such as Tookie’s, I wouldn’t know how to handle it. Most likely, I’d think of all the worst things in life, but not in Tookie’s mind. Nerves kick in, and Tookie could be passed out on the floor, just thinking of not having the best dress for The Day of Discovery. Myrracle, Tookie’s sister, is everything in the family. Drop dead gorges, flawless in every way, and this is never going to be a part of my life, hopefully. Tingling inside this book is getting better and better, I can’t stop reading. Tyra Banks has such a good way of writing and persuading the reader to keep on reading.

While not being able to stop reading, I turn the page and then there are not more pages. I finished the book, without realizing it- amazing. Tyra Banks is an outstanding author, period. She makes you feel like you’re Tookie, and you can’t change that. You become someone you can feel for, so make a change in the world to stop the feeling of being left out or invisible. The world is full of adventures, feeling like you can’t explore the world, because you have no one to share it with is the same as feeling like you have no one, no one at all. That is the worst feeling to feel. Just think how many people you may not see, but they’re there.