RED

The book RED: the next generation of American writers--teenage girls-on what fires up by: Amy Goldwasser was my second favorite book. I enjoyed how it was stories from teenagers and not just an adult writing about teenagers. My favorite teenage story was The Beautiful Cause of Death That Had Me Dying for a While. It can relate to my life because my best friend died my senior year of an eating disorder. She was both bulimic and anorexic. She was not that thin but went to Oregon for rehab for six months. She suffered since fourth grade when her classmates called her fat. It took her life in 2008! Girls see in magazines these beautiful thin girls and don't realize that they are airbrushed and fake. Even though I know for a fact that these women are fake I still obsessed over my weight and look. I just work out constantly now. I can relate to the girl in the story because I never eat in front of people. Especially the opposite sex. I don’t know what it is, but I feel like I should not eat in front of people. Once I get to know somebody I will become more comfortable and be able to. What struck me most about Red was that I'd be reading touching stories that made me smile one minute and be in tears the next. The essays were interesting, but too short and too far-ranging in their topics to have a significant impact on me. It made me remember my teenage years, not so long ago, and surprised me by how similar life is and how different it is for teenage girls these days.

Post 9

I would write a book about my life through adolescents because I have been through a lot more then the average teenager. Starting from age thirteen I went from going to an all white middle school to going to high school which was mostly black. I am not racist and look down on racism but It was a very new experience for me. At the age of fourteen I had many life changing experiences including a tumor that was 4 inches in diameter and had to have emergency surgery, I was life flighted because i was paralyzed after falling down the stairs, I had an eating disorder. That is a lot for a freshman in high school to go through. I battled through high school having no friends and keeping to myself, I never had a friend in grade school either so I was all alone. I did not mind and still don't mind because even though I seem outgoing I like to keep things to myself. At age sixteen I started dating a guy who I stayed with throughout the rest of high school and recently just ended the relationship with. I was engaged at the age of 18. My senior year in high school which is supposed to be the best years of a teens life, was horrible. My best friend died of an eating disorder, my fiance became abusive, and I got a horrible lung infection which took away my ability to run, the only thing that kept me sane. I think that I could give a lot of advice to young teens. I talk to my younger cousins all the time and they tell me I give them wonderful advice. As I thought things were getting better in college, I lost another friend due to a heart attack. You never realize how horrible somethings can be unless you experience it. All these experiences made me alot more mature for my age, especially growing up with no friends.

I would have some diary entries but I would just make chapters by my teenage years.