Poll Update
Posted in Poll results, Uncategorized on 01/12/2010 10:19 pm by jessHey there! In case you’re new to the blog–every month (ish), I post a poll on my website related to the themes of Nice and Mean. So far, we’ve learned How nice (or mean) were you in seventh grade? And now we’re learning…
How do you get what you want?
If someone is standing in the way of getting what I want, I am most likely to…
- Decide what I want is not worth an argument 0%
- Sneak around them to get my way — 13%
- Discuss what I want with the person and try to compromise — 44%
- Try to get them to see that what I want is good for them, too — 31%
- Blow past them however I can to achieve my goal — 13%
If you’re a blow-paster, you’re like narrator numero uno, Marina, and frankly, even though I know many adult readers may balk at Marina’s brashness, I think young readers like and even envy that quality. Why are they so into The Clique and The Ashleys? The clothes, maybe, but also the idea that somebody out there just does what she wants. Of course, maybe they also comfort from the fact that there are often consequences from completely unleashing your inner beech tree.
If you kind of swallow what you want, you’re like Sachi–at least, how she starts at the beginning of the book. She learns a little from her experiences, and from Marina, to be more direct.
To vote in this month’s poll, How did you decide what to wear in seventh grade? Go here.
01/13/2010 at 11:37 pm
I went to Catholic school 6th-8th grade so I have no fond memories of choosing what I wore to school. Although K-5th I did and I know I worn jeans basically everyday without a care in the world 🙂
I don’t really understand why people are so into the Clique, unless it’s because they’re funny. I just laugh at the girls, I found it hard to believe people actually talked/acted the way they do, but now in high school I’ve met Clique like people!
10/28/2015 at 11:06 pm
My broadband has been suirffeng just lately, getting slower and slower as the months go by. I had an engineer visit because they diagnosed a REIN (interference) issue which is being caused basically by too many people connected down one pipe on Middlemore. So although there is nothing that can be done I was informed by the Openreach engineer that Middlemore is due to have FTTC (Infinity) in 8 months time, hopefully bringing an end to our terrible broadband. He also fitted an FTTC (Infinity) ready faceplate on my master phone socket.