Charlotte Temple 21st century

Charlotte Temple is just 15 years old. She is a beautiful and attractive girl who has good intentions. She is beginning her first year at a boarding school in Ohio. She has been home schooled for her whole life. Her parents are afraid because she will face many temptations but they trust her and believe in her so they let her go on her way. Charlotte gets good grades and avoids going out. She is quiet and keeps to herself. The principle of the school assigns a R.A named La Rue to help her experience life away from her parents. What a big mistake! La Rue is a crazy person and a very bad influence. She gets Charlotte into drinking and smoking. La Rue is supposed to be protecting her and keeping her from danger. One night they go to a party right outside of the boarding school. They sneak Charlotte out because she is too young. As they are at the party she has a little too much to drink. La Rue introduces her to a handsome charming senior Montraville. He is the captain of the football team and also runs track. He is the most popular senior in the entire school. Little does Charlotte know that he is just using her to get his ex girlfriend jealous. Since she had too much to drink and La Rue was nowhere to be found she gives into sexual temptations. They stop talking after that night until Charlotte approaches Montraville and tells him that she is pregnant with his child and refuses an abortion. She will not turn to her parents for help so she turns to the only person she knows, La Rue. (Montraville already approached La Rue for help) La Rue tells her that she should marry Montraville so that her parents would be less disappointed.

Later Montraville decides to take Charlotte to Vegas to get married so that he does not get in trouble for rape. Since she already has a fake ID all they need is a witness, so La Rue goes along with them. They drive down there one weekend and stay in a hotel. Montraville freaks out and wakes up La Rue. He does not want to follow through with that because he does not care about Charlotte. Montraville wakes up Charlotte and tells her that he wanted to go have a celebration drink so they all go out. Montraville puts something in Charlotte's drink and she passes out and dies. They get scared and they ……….

To be continued

Charlotte Temple #1

Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson was a very interesting book. As all or most of you know I hate reading and never read unless I have too. This book sparked my interest and I actually enjoying the book. It brings many questions to my mind and make me actually think about what I am reading. Some questions that come to mind are, why did La Rue choose Charlotte? Did she realize that when she was assigned to Charlotte that she could take advantage of her? Or was it because she knew that she was vulnerable? Was this a whole plot to go to the America? Does Charlotte know she got used for this purpose after he left her? It came to my attention that La Rue used her for her innocence and she feels no guilt towards what she did. I believe that La Rue and Montraville are in together to get to America because he soon ditches her and La Rue ditches Belcour. La Rue takes advantage of Charlotte's trust in their friendship by using her as a ticket out of England. Instead of protecting her and advising her to be safe she pushes her in risks way.In the end of the book the only person that seems to have some sort of guilt was Montraville. He still tried to keep her living by giving her money that Belcour did not give to her! I think that he cared enough to keep her safe and alive but not enough to be with her. You see this very often in teenagers today where they trust somebody so much that they would do anything for them or do anything they say, but when you actually turn to them for advice (of something they got you into) they befriend you and leave you to deal with the problem on your own. This was seen when Charlotte went to La Rue one last time for help, La Rue could have easily helped her with all the money she had and the wealth she had but instead she left Charlotte to die, in return she did as well!

The Good Bad Boy

I want to do my essay on the “good bad boy”. You know the overconfident, cocky, macho jerk that treats women like they're replaceable, while they're waiting in line to climb into his bed. Men hate these guys, yet women love them. If you ask any single woman on the street what she's looking for in a man and she'll tell you that she wants a nice guy with a sense of humor who will treat her well. But then she'll turn around and fall all over herself trying to get to a Bad Boy who will use and abuse her. Usually these men are seen as bad boys, so you know to stay away from them! The good bad boy is nice and thoughtful but also has some of the bad boy traits. I personally know of a good bad boy. He does what he wants when he wants to do it, regardless of what anyone else thinks. A Bad Boy is very strong about their masculinity, independence and confidence which can sometimes come across as arrogant. Bad Boys are all about sexual confidence, and women appreciate confident lovers, which is hard to see due to his appearance as a good boy.

Blog # 1

The book The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine was a very interesting book. The chapter that caught my attention the most was the last chapter Goths in Tomorrowland. This chapter explains stereotypes that are often seen in today's society as well in past history. People assume that people belong to a certain group because of what music they listen to but that is not true in my case. I am generally a normal person who likes shopping, clothes, working out. People say I am "preppy" , "jock", "snob", "nerd".. and so on. I listen to rock and roll and people don't believe me when I say that. Why cant somebody whose favorite color is pink listen to hard rock, and rock and roll? Is their something wrong with that? People are being judged based on their outer appearance when you should actually get to know somebody first. With the goths in Disney Land, they were being singled out just because of their looks when they just wanted to go out and have a good time and be with people who understand them! People are looked upon if they are different, but do we all really want to be the same? Opposites attract and unless you get to know somebody from a different "group" you will never know if that person would ever be your best friend or lover. I work at a clothing store at beachwood mall and we are taught in our training who to look for and who to ignore. We were taught that anybody, usually African American men, wearing sweatpants or have book bags were suspects! It makes me so mad that just because of a stereotype we have to single out certain people! Anybody can steal, maybe the people who walk into the store with their expensive suits and have money got their living from stealing. In my opinion stereotypes and groups are never going to end unless people get over the fact that everybody is different.

To end my statement, people should not judge by whats on the outside, or what type of clothing people wear, or even by the title that they are given, getting to know somebody is the only true way to know what type of person they are. These groups and clicks need to end, they are pointless in society.