My The Friday Everything Changed summary
the Friday everything changed questions and summary
- the boys are upset that the girls are trying to carry the water because they think that they aren’t strong and it is a tradition special to them
- the strategies they use include hateful words beating them up an example of this is “as for alma, who kept getting notes thrown on her desk promising her everything from a broken nose to having her pants pulled down
- I think that the story is from a girl maybe the authors perspective the narrator thinks that the situation is really new and weird it shows this with examples like “we girl” and “but it was all too much for us at the moment”
- the setting is in an old school of in a remote area which makes the idea about things more confided to them and has no oversite from the main area of nova scotia hints of this include when the narrator said”one of those real city schools”
- the protagonist is either the girls as a whole or alma Niles because they fight for a good cause which is gender equality. In the end, get to achieve their goal of showing to the boys that they or strong with ms Ralston’s help. hints of this is “He was getting over the first shock of finding ms Ralston opposite of his bat”
- Everything changed because before only the boys carried the water bucket until alma asks her question and the boys start bullying them because they believe that the girls are powerful and strong until Ms. Ralston goes and wins a homerun with was her way of symbolizing that girl can e strong and power full and are able the same things boy activities wise
- Vocabulary
- 1. Galvanized: shock or excite (someone) into taking action.
- 2. remotest: unknown chance
- 3. intoxicated: exhilarated
- 4. ominous: mysterious
- 5. supplementary: completing or enhancing something.
- 7. forlornly: bereft, forsaken left quite
- 8 earnistly: with sincere and intense conviction; seriously.
- 9 gloating: dwelling on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
- 10 transfixed: focused on something
- 10, pirouting: a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.