Creative Writing: Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?

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Where are you going where have you been?
Could they be any more different? I thought mothers and daughters were supposed to like each other, or at least pretend that they do. Connie, a fifteen year old going through her rebellious adolescent years.
She is a girl full of fantasies that will never happen and has a different mindset than her mother and sister. She believes that she is smarter, older and wiser than what she really is. Everything about her has two sides to it, the way she dressed “she wore a pull over jersey blouse that looked one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from home”, the way she walked “at home she was very childlike and bobbing or languid enough to make anyone’s evening out”. Even the way
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simplest things for example, in the movie Connie forgot to buy a paint roller for her mom to start painting the house and that turned into a huge discussion and before that Connie got screamed at by her mom for putting hair spray on before even having breakfast and then that turned into …show more content…
All this arguing tells me that the mom is looking for a fight and has no desire to stop, what type of mom would do that to her own child? And then the fact that she doesn’t keep this private and goes and tells her sisters all about how great June is and how bad of a child is Connie tells you how much she cares about her daughters image.

Then finally Little Ms. Perfect Connie’s older sister June. This girl honestly seems like the normal one in a family that has a judgmental mother, an out of control teen age girl and a dad who could care less about what is going on in the house. She is the trophy daughter that every parent wants and every sibling loathes, I mean how would you feel if you had to compete with someone that got perfect grades all throughout high school and college, has a job and seems to have her life together while you are still trying to figure out what to do with yours and then to make it even worse that someone is your sister.
Just how much pressure can one take before reaching the breaking point?

This family could not be more dysfunctional even if it tried, I find it curious of how different the

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