The Cool Kid Chapter Summaries

Improved Essays
In this book there's a girl named Eliza who has to move with her mother when her mother's new boyfriend, Burl, gets going with his band. We first see her complaining about the issue to the janitor of the apartment that they lived at, Mr. Amos. He tells her to think of this as an adventure and the chance for a new beginning, and she tells of she always wanted to be in the "cool kid" group. So that's exactly what she tries to do for most of the book. The town they have to move to is a small town of 435 people named Gouge Eye. She soon meets the girl next door named Dierdre whose family life is worse than her own. Her father often yelled at his wife, Hannah, and complained about wanting the house to burn down so that he could collect the insurance on it and leave the small town of Gouge Eye. She soon learns that they go to a school in a nearby town and that the popular kids there were Amanda, Casey, And Lauren. She keeps trying to learn how they act by asking Dierdre questions about them and trying to emphasize the importance of the first impression. When she finally gets a chance to belong to the cool kid group she jumps all over it. The chance starts with her stealing an encyclopedia from the library for Amanda so she could supposedly work on a paper she had to do …show more content…
At first when she's still desperately trying to fit in with the cool kids it's hate to make that connection between her and that crystal. The reason for that is because it just stays as a "dud" as she calls it. She keeps trying, but as she starts to slowly see through the cool girls' guises and see them for the selfish liars they were the sapphire crystal slowly starts to grow into a beautiful blue gem like the rubies and alums did much earlier in the story. These other gems may symbolize some of the other characters in the story, but if that's the case then I didn't see who the gems correlated

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Perfect. We live in a world where all anyone strives to be is perfect. Is that the sole purpose of life? To belittle or gain power over someone’s struggles? Merely to make yourself feel better or look as though you're perfect?…

    • 1427 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In The Glass Castle, the author named Jeannette Walls thinks of a plan to aright a bended Joshua tree that she sees in the Desert. The tree that Jeannette discovers grows sideways due to the harsh weather conditions and struggles to survive every day. Jeannette’s mother tells her to leave the tree how it is because it is “the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty” (Walls 45). Similarly, the tree symbolizes Jeannette’s life. Both of these living creatures are negatively impacted by their environment, face criticism, work hard regardless of what they are provided with and live an admirable life.…

    • 1508 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Teaser: Eleanor Douglas is the new girl at school, and by no means does she fit in. With crazy, red hair, an interesting choice in fashion, and a not-so-typical body type, she is singled out from the moment she steps on the bus to go to school. She has no doubt set herself as a target for bullies, including Park's friends, Tina and Steve. But she has a hard life, living on the poorer side of Omaha with her younger siblings and her abusive and alcoholic stepdad. Park Sheridan - who is already considered an outsider at school because of his race, and his interests - begrudgingly offers a seat to the new girl.…

    • 1187 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    America Hallow and LaLee's Kin both deals with poverty; however, they both have different backgrounds in the movies. America Hallow is about a Southern families, who lives in the rural South of Kentucky. The Bowling family being live in the hollow for seven generations. While LaLee's Kin is referring to an another Southern families, who lives in Mississippi Delta after the abolition of slavery. LaLee's Kin have another side story about Reggie Barnes, the superintendent of the West Tallahatchie school system,trying to get the school out of probation by raising up test scores.…

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever been to summer camp? If you have where? Have your parents ever let you stay at someone’s house for the summer? That is exactly what happens to Margaret Rose Kane in the book The Outcasts of 19 Schedler Place. There are many character in the book The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place the main character is Margaret she’s an only child and her parents left for an archeological dig in Peru for the summer.…

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Brooklyn became “cool” since it gave creative thinkers a space to thrive. As Zukin has stated, the power of real estate, government policy and the taste of middle class is what made Brooklyn authentic. This in a way begin the process of gentrification as the old neighborhood’s such as Bushwick made people, generations of people were up and coming from that neighborhood but it has shifted and now people go there stay but there is no sense of community. Now the native Bushwick residents’ positive and negative feelings about the growing change in their community vary because they have not built the neighborhood.…

    • 300 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Bad Boy Chapter 5 Summary

    • 261 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Bad Boy, In chapter 5, Walter realized he had trouble with his speech, because he was told to read in front of the class,pg.42. People mostly called Walter, Walter Dean. Walter’s life. Walter also considers his adopted parents to be his real family.…

    • 261 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ida B: Save The World

    • 656 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Ida B… and her plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World is a book about a little girl named Ida B who experiences changes in her life that changes her personality. In the beginning of the story, Ida B receives a warning from the apple trees on her farm’s orchard. They say that they have heard that trouble is coming her way. They warn her on a day that Ida B thinks is perfectly fine, since the sun is shining, and the birds are chirping.…

    • 656 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Anna Oliphant

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Life was always on Anna Oliphant’s side. She had a trustworthy best friend named Bridgette and Christopher, also known as Toph, the guy she likes a lot who is starting to respond back to her affection. Everything was almost as perfect as a fairy tale for Anna, when her wealthy father decides to send her to a boarding school in France for her senior year in high school. Leaving the people special to her including Bridge, Toph and her brother, Sean was the last thing Anna ever wanted to do. She did not want to leave Atlanta even if it was for the beautiful city of Paris.…

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The novel takes place in Omaha, Nebraska. In the beginning, Park and Eleanor are forced to sit next to each other for the first time of many bus rides to school. They could never have appeared so different. Park Sheridan is a half-Korean high school kid who wore almost nothing but the color black. He comes from an almost perfect family.…

    • 534 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Okay For Now

    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Okay for Now, develops Doug Swieteck into a more mature human throughout his book. Doug’s father is not very caring, and his mother does not do much about that, so he grows up living life essentially on his own. Life is hard enough with his family issues, but suddenly, Doug's father forces him to pack all his belongings up and move to a town he not only does not know, but one he does not like. His attitude is nowhere near positive toward his new town, Marysville, so he is uninterested in anything the town has in store for him. He encounters things in Marysville in which he not only has to face, but things which cause him to change entirely.…

    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Women's roles are controlled by how they are raised. Emily grew up differently and that contributed to how she reacted. Since Emily did not have the support and love of her father, she could not understand how to be stable. Her father just pushed men away thinking that it would help her, but at the end it just hindered her from knowing how to be happy in a relationship. Emily craved affection, but did not know how to get it or lose it.…

    • 390 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We Real Cool Summary

    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages

    This poem that I am going to write about is called “We real cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7,1917 in Topeka, Kansas and died on December 3, 2000 in Chicago Illinois. This poem was written in 1959 and published in 1960. This poem also has a subtitle called “The pool players. Seven at the golden shovel”.…

    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Morrison has made a constant effort to bring to the consciousness of her readers the history of black slaves in America. Her texts The Bluest Eye and Beloved vivdly portray this. Rushdy asserts to this thus: ‘Beloved is the product of and a contribution to a historical moment in which African American historiography is in a state of fervid revision’ (44-5). In a bid to bring these experiences to the consciousness of her readers, Morrison traces Beloved to the story of Margaret Garner, a slave who killed her child in order to avoid them being killed by the slave owners. For the slaves in America, killing themselves and their children was a better option than being slaves.…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout time, The Pearl has been a poem subject to criticism and profound analysis on behalf of common readers and academics alike –this in regard to the manner in which the poem’s main themes are presented, and what the unknown author initially intended by introducing such topics. The Pearl, indeed, is complex poem to study and one on which the medieval dream visions, symbolism and allegory are used by the poet as narrative techniques to further develop his work. In the dream vision, distraught by the loss of his infant daughter and in a state of deep mourning the narrator dreams of a beautiful garden. Wandering further, he encounters the image of a woman whom he recognizes as his daughter –his incomparable Pearl.…

    • 1184 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays