Charlotte can only take so much. After summer passed with little to no visits from Montroville she started thinking about her life and how she can fix all these empty spaces she has in it. Little Lucy was about five months and Charlotte knew she had to make a good life for her daughter just like her parents did for her, even if it means leaving Montroville and going to live with her parents. Charlotte gave him one more time to make things right and he never showed up. Charlotte packed her belongings and left with out a note or anything left behind. When she got settled in at her parents place she started going back to school and working at a friend of the family's restaurant saving money to get her own place. It was a very tough year for Charlotte trying to forgive her self for what she did to her parents and trying to get the hang of her new schedule. She completed an associates degree in science hoping to one day become a nurse practitioner. After graduation she got a cute little two bedroom apartment, a place she could defiantly call home. She started back at school working towards her BSN. While in nursing school she met an amazing man but was real skeptical about getting into another relationship. This time she knew she had to keep her guard up. He was a very smart man that many people respected him. He didn't try to rush her into anything and just thought the world of her. Next thing Charlotte new she was in her junior year of college and felt on top of the world. To think of where she came from and how she turned her whole life around was astonishing every time she thought about it. Charlotte was living her dream as an independent single mother.

I was astonished by the way La Rue treated Charlotte in the end of this book. It upsets me because this is how some people today treat others. I don't like how some people live for themselves and themselves only. They do whatever it is to get what they want and don't even consider other peoples feelings. My father as far as i can remember has been telling me never to think only about myself. To consider other peoples feelings while you are making whatever decision it is. He told me to keep my self at a higher priority than others but never to forget other people have feelings to. With reading this book i can say that i really realize that my father had really advice. I don't know how La Rue can live with herself and then have enough dignity to show her face to the Temple's and let them take care of her when she has no where else to go. The Temple's must have a huge heart to be able to forgive her because i know i would never have. Also, if i was La Rue i don't think i would be able to show my face in town again. it just shows how nasty of a person she is and how she only lives for herself. Maybe it is good survival skills but to me if your a good person and actually have friends then she would have never been in the positions she is in now because they would be there for her at her moment of need. It is funny to see that even though this book was written such a long time ago people really have stayed the same if not became worse.

The adolescent life has many many topics. They are at such an amazing age that most wish to relive. I would say the first topic that comes to mind is adolescent bullying. It happens so much that they start teaching kids in elementary school what bullying is, how to report it and not become a bully. I would say that most bullying comes from teens that have self problems with in them. It would be a good topic to write on because it is so popular. Bullying happens for all sorts of reasons but like i said above to some being a bully makes them feel better which is kinda sick if you think about it. I have been victim to being a bully a couple times in my life as i am sure we all have so it would be interesting to learn more about the topic. I can say however that i have never hung someone on the flag poles like you see in movies : ). My bullying days were very minor i would more so call it being mean. It is funny to watch movies about bullying. My all time favorite bullying scene is in dumb and dumberer where they think that the bully is their friend and that it is normal. I would have to say that bullying is no longer 'cool'. I have a younger brother in 10th grade and my son is in 1st grade and it has seemed to change a little since i was in high school but elementary school seems the same. School is more so "cool" or cooler than it was when i was growing up. People skipped classes as much as they could. But now with the new trend of being smart and going to college few tend to skip. My brother says that there are some people that are bullies but most just stick to their social groups and go about their way. As for Elementary school my son tells me all the time how one minute this kids says he is his friend and the next thing he knows it he isnt just because someone has the cooler toy that he wants to play with. Its minor but it hurts his feelings. I think this would be a good topic to write about because bullying consists of so much.

Rise and Fall of American Teenagers part one

The topic I want to put to attention would be about how some parents say that they do not know how to handle teenagers. It does, but then again it doesn't make sense to me. Everyone was once a teenager. So how come when we grow into adults we don't know how to handle them. I am not to far from away from once being a teenager and I definitely think that I would know how to handle one. All I would do is think of how I would have thought or handled a situation as a teenager. I know that everyone pretty much grows up different and some never go threw what some teens have been subject to, but I am sure they have heard about it or one of their friends went threw the situation; so they gained some kind of knowledge on how to handle certain situations. Currently in our society parents don't have or take the time these teenagers need to really be a part of their lives. Teenagers have to much time on their hands which can lead anyone into some kind of trouble. If parents where with their teenagers more than just when they were into trouble they wouldn't be part of society that some are afraid of. It is a cry for attention for most teenagers whether directed towards their parents or family in general. If parents would take the time and really think about their teen individually and how they had to handle them in the past then teenagers years might not be so bad. No kid turns into satin over night. Maybe parents should blame themselves a little bit more for having children that behave in such a way. Now I know their are some situations that are inevitable but I think my point is pretty clear. The book also talks about the little time parents spend with their children because of the increasing hours that some have to work to be able to pay bills and have a roof over their families head. this is very sad but true. Now some families are divorced which brings a burdon on their children and creates less time together as a "family" they once were.