Lynda Hunt’s realistic fiction, “Fish in a Tree,” describes a very challenging life of a 6th grader, Ally Nickerson. When the original teacher leaves, and a sub teacher replaces her spot, Mr. Daniels brings out the light in Ally. All Ally tries to do is fit in, but that is not what the story is trying to convey. One lesson that we can learn from the story is standing up for someone, is above all more important then fitting in. This can be shown through multiple critical scenes in the story.
Starting at the beginning of the story, Ally tries to fit in, when deep within, she feels horrible. One day, a group of popular girls made fun of a kid, about how his shoes looked. The back of Albert’s shoes were cut out because he was outgrowing them. A popular girl Shay, starts to tease Albert of the amount of money that he has, because he is not able to purchase another pair of sneakers. Shay then asked Ally how she thinks the shoes are. Ally contemplates whether she should stick up for him, sadly, she makes the decision to fit in, and responds to make Shay feel proud of her. “’They’re pretty dopey. What a weirdo, huh?”’(61-62). In this particular …show more content…
“Shay is making fun of Albert because his clothes don’t fit, Keisha whips around fast, ‘Why do you always try to pull people down?’ She asked”(71). Keisha tries to defend Albert from his feeling’s being hurt. In the dialogue, the ways the words are empathized shows that Keisha is really confident , and knows what she is trying to ask in order to stick up for Albert. Over empathizing words like “always” is used saying that Shay is always hurting people’s feelings. Instead of Keisha following along with Shay she stood up for Albert in a very confident manner. Through this dialogue, Lynda used a great way to show how it is so important to stand up for someone. Which is actually was Keisha ends up doing in the
Starting at the beginning of the story, Ally tries to fit in, when deep within, she feels horrible. One day, a group of popular girls made fun of a kid, about how his shoes looked. The back of Albert’s shoes were cut out because he was outgrowing them. A popular girl Shay, starts to tease Albert of the amount of money that he has, because he is not able to purchase another pair of sneakers. Shay then asked Ally how she thinks the shoes are. Ally contemplates whether she should stick up for him, sadly, she makes the decision to fit in, and responds to make Shay feel proud of her. “’They’re pretty dopey. What a weirdo, huh?”’(61-62). In this particular …show more content…
“Shay is making fun of Albert because his clothes don’t fit, Keisha whips around fast, ‘Why do you always try to pull people down?’ She asked”(71). Keisha tries to defend Albert from his feeling’s being hurt. In the dialogue, the ways the words are empathized shows that Keisha is really confident , and knows what she is trying to ask in order to stick up for Albert. Over empathizing words like “always” is used saying that Shay is always hurting people’s feelings. Instead of Keisha following along with Shay she stood up for Albert in a very confident manner. Through this dialogue, Lynda used a great way to show how it is so important to stand up for someone. Which is actually was Keisha ends up doing in the