Bridge Is The Girl When She Went Away Essay

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Greg-Is the typical, high school football who puts everyone’s needs before his own; always giving people “Put-ups” mean while putting himself down, and with that people always just assume that he is ok with all these changes, when he’s not.
Rita- Try to impress everyone with her mind, she always beat herself up whenever she got an A- instead of an A+. During every test or exam she’d spend all her free time studying. She didn’t care what was happening either if it was a school activity or just a simple Lunch date she always had a backpack with homework ready to study.
Bridget- Is the girl who is in every one eye really pretty and beautiful; but she doesn’t see that. That why she always takes vitamin and skipping meals, No one knows about Bridget’s secret of her “diet”. Bridget will go through anything or do anything to
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He’s not comfortable coming out just yet because he’s afraid that his parents and peers won’t like him the same anymore; or will look at him different.
Ken- A wants to be Jock but he doesn’t have the “look” he has more of the math logic of Sports. He’s only there because his Mom makes him come over and socialize with people his own age and not just the younger kids that he tutor’s
Jason- Side kick friend who’s always in the shadow. The one who’s to scare to even talk the only person that he will talk to is Ken, only because Ken has saved him from a lot of bulling and beatings at home, because Jason is different.
Taylor-Delivery Girl who let her older brother bullied her, her whole childhood. And now she’s in the proses of growing but it’s going to take some time and all she needs are some friends to be there every step of the way.
Mirror-Is the most important part, is a person acting as a Mirror, getting people to change their outcome of what they really are or how their actions can change other

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