Blog #5 5/20/09

For this blog post, I wanted to analyze a quotation from a main character Polly, from 3 Willows. Polly said, "She didn't want to be interesting. Maybe it was okay when you were grown up and you were in control of it, but being different in high school was no fun at all"(Brashares, 143). Pollys mom Dia was an artist, so of course Dia felt comfortable being unique and "interesting." But, after Polly went through modeling camp, she was exposed to how the world viewed people, and being "interesting" definitely was not it. First off, after being told that being different was way better than normal, it came as a shock to Polly when she entered high school and modeling. This especially became true when her friends split apart to go into "better" friend groups, feeling ashamed when they talked to her, mostly because they thought they would hurt her feelings, which in a way, they did. This quote shows how even though parents and teachers stress that being yourself is the most important thing, it really is false when you are a student, and it is angering that adults feed their kids with those kinds of things, only setting them up to be dissapointed in the future. Sure, being unique is fine, but many people in high school don't view it as "cool" or "normal." Moreover, this quote shows how hurt Polly was after being abandoned by her friends and being told lies from her mom.