Charlotte #2

Charlotte is a young and naive girl, and puts her trust into anyone. Her parents are very important people in high office. Charlotte, being an only child decides she wants to go off to Australia for the summer and do study abroad. Her parents trust that she will make great decisions and won't get into any sorts of trouble. So her parents allow for her to go away to Australia for the summer. Charlotte decides to invite her best friend Emily with her.

Charlotte and Emily aboard the plane and are off to Australia for three months, without parental supervision. Now Charlottes' parents thought that she was going to be staying in a school there in Australia, but Charlotte had other plans. Charlotte had been talking to this boy, named Jason, she had met last summer while she was shopping at a hot local mall. The young boy was from Australia, and had convinced her to come down and stay with him for the summer, and promised her she would be very safe there with him and his family. Jason was a typical Australian boy, he had the shaggy blonde hair, surfed all the time, and seemed to always get away with everything.

Charlotte and Emily finally arrived in Australia early in the morning only to not find Jason anywhere. They ended up waiting for hours for him to come along. When he finally did arrive, Jason was not the same as she had remembered him as. He now had his hair dyed all shorts of colors and reminded her of a punk rocker. Although Charlotte was upset about this, she decided to keep going along with him to his place, cause he still seemed the same just a different look.

When all three of them arrive to Jason's place she sees a very nice and appropriate house Jason had initially described to her. So her concerns were now no where near as bad as she had thought.

Jason and Charlotte had a great two months together so far. It definitely turned out much different than she could ever had imagined. Emily also met a local boy and started dating him as well. Charlotte and Jason then decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. So planned on Jason going back to the states with Charlotte and Emily at the end of their stay.

When Charlotte, Emily, and Jason aboard the plane they were all nervous as to how Charlotte's parents would take it. When they landed and met up with Charlottes parents they were very surprised to see a young boy with them.

After hearing Charlottes adventure and why she went to Australia they were in shock. But they ended up liking Jason very much and allowed for him to stay with them as long as he wanted.

Charlotte Temple

While reading Charlotte Temple, I was very confused with all the characters they were introducing all at once. I was also confused with how the author Susanna Rowson jumped from one point to another without a good transition. But as the story went on it all soon fell into place and I understood who was who, and their part in the story. Throughout the story I felt a little bit sorry for Charlotte. She endured a lot of pain towards the second half of the story. In the beginning though I feel that Charlotte was a very confused individual and wasn't sure what she wanted to do with herself, or whom she wanted to interact with. When Montraville was first introduced to Charlotte I believe there was a instant attraction between the two, which is what caused Charlotte's confusion with what she wanted. I believe that La Rue is the one who truly convinced her to go with them to America, and was really being a friend at first, but while on the ship started to befriend Charlotte. I also think the fact that Montraville used Charlotte was a horrible thing. The way he impregnated and then deserted her and married another woman was a shame. Then when Charlotte went to her so called friend La Rue, she denied ever knowing whom she was and told the servants to take her away and out of her sight, for she said she was terrifying her to death. The way La Rue turned her back on her friend was terrible for Charlotte, and a horrible thing. I don't know how La Rue could do that to her, when she was carrying a baby and ill. Thankfully one of La Rue's servants said she could stay there until she could have help arrive for her. Although it was very sad that Charlotte passed, it was very nice of her parents to take in a raise Lucy.

All in all I think this was a very good book, even though it was a little bit confusing at first.

Essay Topic

I'm not exactly sure as of what I want to write my essay on. I have a three interests of topics in mind. I think writing about a teenager leaving home and trying to become independent would be a good topic to write about. I know that when I was getting ready for college, I couldn't wait to leave home and become independent and not have to rely on my parents. I was excited to be able to make my own rules and have everything the way that I wanted it not so much as how my parents wanted things. I also think writing about finding a role model would be a good topic too, because when you are developing in your childhood years everyone needs a role model in their life. They need someone they can look up to and be able to go to for advice. I thought I found a good role model to look up to when I was younger, but as the years went by I soon found that they weren't the best of role models to look up to. So I believe that every adolescent should have some type of good role model they can truely be able to look up to. The third topic that I think would also be interesting to write about is if adults can really write like a teenager, and have an authentic voice of a teenager. I believe that some adults may have the ability to write and sound authentically like a teenager, but it takes a very talented writer in order to be able to do so, and have their writing sound really good.

Hine- Part 2

Ch. Eleven Dead End Kids

In reading this chapter, one part that stood out the most to me was the fact that during the Depression high school enrollment increased by about 50 percent. Slightly less than half were between 14 and 16 in the 1930's, while by 1940 two thirds were in school. In the reading Hine's also noted that there was no point in dropping out at fourteen and fifteen or even sixteen to get a job, because there weren't any jobs out there for them.

I don't necessairly think that the Depression was a good thing, but the fact that the loss of jobs kept young children from dropping out of school just to work was a good thing. As a child, they have a responsibility of going to school and furthering their education. Although in the reading he says that with children being in school it helped keep children off the streets, until it became to over crowded and had to switch to double sessions. At least the child still had the option of going to school and getting the education everyone deserves.

I don't believe that any child or teenager for that matter, should have to decide whether or not they want to work and help support the family or go to school and get an education. I think that a teenager can have a part time job, but not to support the family, but rather have extra spending cash, or save it up for their car or what ever it maybe. The parents are suppose to do be the ones that take care of there children, not vice versa. I know that there are cases which the teenager may need to help, but they shouldn't have that weight on there shoulders at that age.

Now a days teenagers are starting to have part time jobs around the age of 16 or 17. They are still attending school, and many are even now going to college and furthering there education.

I know when I was still living at home my parents didn't want me to get a part time job until I knew that I could handle my school work and the job at the same time. My grades were more important than starting a part time job. They didn't want me to be stressed, they wanted me to be the teenager that I was, rather than be stressed out and my grades start to fail.