My Name

Like Boys & Girls I thought that this chapter was very interseting as well. I was very interested as she described her name not as what it meant in a different language but with metaphors and real things. I thought I could relate my name to that when my parents used to tell me how they thought of my name. But I didn't agree with how she thought that women shoudl be thought of second class people because they shouldn't they just like everyone else, they're equal. I liked the part when she talked about how her grandmother waited by the window for something better and how she didn't want to take her place but accepted her name. I was alos interested in the fact that she wanted to baptize herself a new name, because I would like to do that as well because there is a side of me that nobody knows and I need a name to describe it.

Boys & Girls

This chapter in the book was very interesting. Not only does it describe how her family is connected to one another, but she also describes topics that have discussed a lot in my family. The fact that she talks about boys and girls iving in separate worlds, in my family my dad and I tend to congregate with one another and same with my sister and mom. This also has to do with how she talks about her brothers are best friends liek the men in our family and how the women are tending to congregate together but aren't as close as the boys. Also two other statements she made about having a future best friend and waiting for something good to happen, like with the red balloon also allowed me to connect to her. I thought that it was intersting becasue in the futurei will have new best friends that I can share time with and tell secrets too and after high school I'm going to be waiting for something good to happen.