Instructions:read a novel up to their standards and based on the theme of it, write 5 commentaries (+ / - 150 words each) about that particular theme, and how it is applicable to any aspect of the students lives, or their society. (families, school, group of friends, or even the world).
This is more of a personal log on the novel, and NOT a summary of it.


Best friends for never
By: Lisi Harrison

Theme: Adolescent Fights


1. Adolescent fights are part of the age, everyone has experience them. But in this novel they are more notable and maybe a lot exaggerate than it really is in real life. Massie Block is a rich girl, who can’t repeat clothe because it will be an offense, who every time she goes to a mall needs to buy tons of thing for herself; but her life changes when a girl called Claire Lyons moves to her house’s guest house. This is not an event that really happens in real life but in this novel this is the start of a “war”. Claire and Massie have always hated, and now having them together will be a catastrophe. Since the day Claire arrived Massie’s guest house a really adolescent fight began, this lead to a deal which was: Claire couldn’t repeat clothe for whole month, and if she broke the deal she will stop talking to Massie, Massie couldn’t buy anything for a whole month and if she broke the deal she would need to wore a Claire old, ugly pants for two weeks. This is something that is maybe not so common for us but it happens and is a way to bother someone.


2. Adolescent fights can be for any reason even if they are not important. Fights can start in an innocent way but with the time they can get serious. Massie is a popular girl on school but because of her often fights with Becca, the leader of another group of popular girls; her popularity is on risk and Massie will not let that happen. Popular girls are not exactly the way they are on this novel, bad. They can be really cool but this can cause lots on problems, sometimes they are also called groups. Halloween is one of the causes Massie fights with Becca, because Becca has being preparing a Boy-Girl party but Massie needs something so she doesn’t loses her popularity and steels Becca’s idea and contacts the best party planner and makes her party. Claire was part of this by an alliance, it consisted Massie will help Claire to convince her parents to give her a cell phone and in exchange Claire will help Massie convince her parents.


3. Love is also a big part of adolescent fights; Massie best friends are fighting and for Massie it is becoming something really boring and stupid. This kind of fights can get really serious and even get in to school problems. Kristen and Dylan were best friend’s long time ago but when they meet Derrington this change. The best friends were fighting for the love of Derrington even without knowing if he liked one of them. Adolescent fights can be for anything and love and boys can cause a good friendship break up easily. Alicia is also on Massie’s group and invents a Hot Tub Party at the same time he is going to play soccer with Kristen and he accepts Alicia’s invitation without caring of Kristen, Alicia did the same with Dylan so she could prove Derrington was playing with them. Fights are common on our life but when people are adolescent this becomes a way of growing up and learning, if we didn’t have fight how could people learn from their mistakes.


4. Adolescence is a great part of people’s life, are kind of the basis for what’s next. The fights at this age can be for the minimum thing like a Halloween costume. This was one of the causes for Massie to start a fight with Claire, because Massie didn’t want to wear the same costume as her. Massie took the costumes for her friends to school except Claire one. At school everyone admire Massie’s group costume, so many of the girls cut their shirt to look somehow like them. Massie felt really good looking at Claire without a costume, but the costume causes a problem at school and Massie’s entire group parents were called. Adolescent fights can also make your life much more complicated or easier, Massie didn’t gave Claire the costume and she wasn’t involved in the problem, and Massie who was the one who created the costume was the responsible for the school to go to uniform. Adolescent fights can be anywhere and can cause trouble everywhere, this fight cause trouble at school, friends and family.


5. The Halloween party was all right until Olivia Ryan, a girl who has being out most of the semester, arrived. Olivia is really beautiful and all the boys think she is perfect. Adolescent fights can be caused because a girl feels apart. Alicia was inviting Vader, Derrington, Cam, Massie and Dylan to play spin the bottle but none of them wanted to play, when Olivia offer herself to play all the boys wanted to get in the game. This was the start of a very long adolescent fight; this was not only between Olivia and Massie but also Dylan and Kristen. When fights are between more than two people this fights turn to be a lot more intense and serious. When the people involved are adolescent these fights are worst because at this age the person is often a lot more vindictive, and when the fight is almost over the person or group that has lost, will start a revenge on the other one.

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