Personal Narrative: The Influence Of Connections

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I was never there to follow with the play until halfway through. I still remember clearly that was when Scarlett is abandoned by all her friends and is made the center of ridicule. As an audience, I watched downstage and saw her struggle and a sense of loss, and that was when I uncovered my own experience which I have long stored in a treasure box and never has never touched after I have found a stable group of friends long ago.

When I was in China, I was adorned by my peers and always dominated the role of a warrior (because I liked to fight when I was little) in my class. As a result of that, I made many good friends through protecting them from those annoying boys. In grade two, I changed school and went to a strictly managed, academic-based elementary school and suddenly lost all my connections. Now, it is the Chinese custom (the unspoken truth) to bully and isolate new people who come into their
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I still recall dumping out every single crumple sheet in my backpack and rummaging through them for a whole hour to prove to my teacher I was not lying when I said finished my homework, and while I was in tears doing the homework all over again, the other kids whispered to each other and watched with cold eyes as the teacher scolded me. The next day, a girl behind me took my worksheets out from her bag and gave them back, casually told me that she needed to copy my answers (this happened in grade 3). This is not the worst experience I have had. They emptied my snacks (I was living in the school) and intentionally threw a few pieces on the floor, stepped on it, and walked away leaving me to clean up the mess. I also recall when I was playing sports with a

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