SELF DEFINITION

Boys & Girls pg 8

• Theme: Sometimes all a girl needs is a best friend.
• "Someday I will have a best friend all my own."
• "One I can tell all my secrets too."
• "One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.

My Name pg 10

• Theme: Your name defines who you are.
• "In spanish, my name means sadness, it means waiting."
• "It was my great grandmothers name, and now it is mine."
• "I would like to baptize myself under a new name."
• "A name more like the real me, the one nobody sees."

Beautiful and Cruel pg 88

• Theme: You shouldn't have to change who you are just for a man.
• "I am an ugly daughter, I am the one nobody comes for."
• "In the movies there is always the one with red lips who is beautiful and cruel."
• "She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all away."
• "I am the one who leaves the table like a man."