Betsey Brown

As I was reading this book I really felt sorry for Betsey and all the pressure her family put her through. For a young girl I felt that she was strong and very brave, the way that she was able to find her own escape sometimes when she couldn’t handle all the pressure and chaos in her house. Before Betsey ran away, I remember while reading the book I was thinking to myself that at her age I don’t know if I would be able to put up with all the pressure her parents put her through. I felt as if she was still a child and her parents had high expectations sometimes because after all she was a young girl.
Since, the period of time this book was written was a historical time, at times I understood Greer side in why he wanted his children to be a part of it. However, I felt as if that there were times he needed some limits. For example, when he took them to a protest, I think he went overboard with that. I thought he was putting the children in danger making them go on a protest which they might not even understand the meaning for it.
I was not very satisfied with the end of the book. Since, this book was during a historical time, I thought they would be more controversy in the book. I was disappointed that I did not get a full story on where Jane went and most of all disappointed that Carrie was not able to come back since she had became like a mother figure to the kids.

My essay outline

Introduction: In this introduction I want talk about pressures that many teenagers faces. I want to talk about where many teenagers get their influences that leads them to so many needs of wanting to be perfect. I want to talk a little about how many teenagers views themselves. I also want give the details of how so many times we spent a lot time worrying about how other people view us because the pressure we get from either our society or the media.
I. In the first paragraph I want to talk about the pressure that is cause by our society. In this paragraph I want mentioned, the pressure that we get from friends, schoolmate, and many others. I will explain how the society has an effect on teenagers.
II. I want to talk about media and how it affects many teenagers these days. Now that there are so many shows on television to watch, I’m sure I will be able to give enough examples on how media has corrupted many teenagers. I want to explain about the beauty that the media portray and how so many teenagers have became so obsess with the beauty that is shown on Television.
III. For the third paragraph I want to talk about how it sad that many teenager look for influences in the wrong places, trying to be perfect, but instead ends up going to the wrong path.
IV. Last paragraph will be my conclusion. I will sum up what I feel about teenagers these days.

Huckleberry

Reading Huckleberry Finn I was slightly disappointed because I thought I would enjoy it more than I did five years ago. When I was in 10th grade our English teacher made us read this book and during that year I hated it. It was like torture reading it, and I thought it was because I didn't speak English well at time or because I was not used to reading American novels. However, five years after my feelings towards the book hasn't changed much.While reading this book I found it a little bit disorganized and I had trouble trying to keep up with it because it was stories after stories. These stories were all over the place and random to a point where it seemed as if the author just wrote down every idea that came up in his head. Sometimes I felt as if there were so many details in the book to a point and some unnecessary. Another thing I didn't like was the last chapters of the book when Tom came back into the pictures. I felt as if those chapters focused a lot on Tom instead of Hucklberry who I wanted to follow till the end as a reader. I felt like I wanted to hear a different ending for Huck and Jim, and be able to see how they grew through their adventure, but instead it seemed as if Tom came and took over the spotlight. Through all the adventures that Huck went through I wanted to hear the author talk more about the growth of Huck. It seemed as if Huck still looked up so much to Tom. However, while reading this book it seemed to me as if Huck was a little wiser than he thought and somehow in the end I wanted Huck to see that and not try to always look up to Tom so much.