Alyssia's Poem Analysis

Alyssa woke up and found out her parents had left early for work. They promised her that her lunch would be prepared by them but that did not happen. Panic mode began and scrambled around to make her lunch. She quickly grabbed an avocado, a banana, some milk and threw it in the blender. While keeping one hand on the blender, she was trying to reciting the poem for French class. Once her smoothie was made, she shuffled through the drawer found a bottle and filled it up. She grabbed her bag and bolted out the door. Finally, she made it to class but before entering she began with reading the quote that was written on the chalkboard across the room. The phrase was written in simple plain style in chalk, "Je suis desolee d 'etre en retard"[translation: …show more content…
Madame Moreau explains (in French), "Today is a new module and I want to you learn how to converse in French. I have been hearing a lot of English but starting now, if I hear any English being spoken you would have to sit by yourself." All the slackers of the class knew that sitting alone would mean that they would be mentored by the other above average students. Alyssia as always came late but today she knew her seat had changed and there was a bright orange seat in the center of the room. She apologized for being late, and accepted her poem then followed down the grid of tables and took her …show more content…
That evening they went over Kelsey 's house to work on this assignment together. Kelsey lived with her older brother who was not around that much and it didn 't seem like she had a elder figure in the house as opposed to Alyssia who stayed at home with her parents. Alyssia had more discipline in keeping things tidy and following rules. Kelsey fixed up the house a little and made room on the coffee table to get started. "So, what characters did you have in mind, Alyssia?". "I want something small that will not attract too much attention and something I can change out of pretty quickly." Kelsey went in her closet and pulled out a bear costume, this was to represent Jojo the bear from a children 's book they read in class a week ago. Alyssia declined this offer because it was a full costume that required changing into. The next option Kelsey presented was Marie Antoinette. Alyssia contemplated and she thought to herself, "This means I have to wear a fancy dress and change in and out of it. I do not want to do that in the school bathroom." She then remembered in history class the famous Marie Antoinette quote, "Hey kelsey, do you know that quote from Marie Antoinette of "Let them eat cake, [if they don 't have bread]". "Oh right that hilarious quote, she was pretty but how could she take on so much cake calories" replied Kelsey. "This is not what that quote was about. It was more about the history and the people not