Best and Worst Qualities
         While I was sick, I read My Life Next Door by: Huntley Fitzpatrick. It's about a girl, Samantha, whose life is driven to perfection by her mother.  She ends up falling for a boy, Jase, who lives next door.  However, Jase is "off limits' because Samantha's mother doesn't like that his family is huge and messy, screwing up her perfect life.  Sam's "perfect" world changes rapidly and an accident forces her to make a hard decision: her mother or Jase's family?
       I believe that Samantha's best quality is that she makes conscientious decisions. I say this because when she comes to a problem she doesn't just choose immediately, she thinks it through and waits for a good option.  "A thousand times since this happened, I've been about to blurt out the whole story, unable to stop myself, unable to keep something this big inside from Jase. Every time, I've bitten my tongue, stayed silent..."(Fitzpatrick, 323). Sam knows that this isn't the right option for her so she doesn't do it, she continues to wait.  "She smiles at me, my mother with her convoluted logic and her towel crown.  I have chosen the Road of No Small Talk." (Fitzpatrick,354). She has finally made her decision and has confidence in it.
         I believe that Samantha's worst quality is that she is selfish.  In parts of the book, she chooses herself over the happiness of others.  "...If I tell him, I'll lose him." (Fitzpatrick,323).  She isn't telling him because something not so great would happen to her.  " '...Why not tell me from the start, Sam?' 'I thought you would hate me. ... I thought it was better to leave than to have you hate me.' " (Fitzpatrick, 357-358). In this case, I don't think she chose wisely, she chose selfishly.

Personal Connection
             I think that my best quality is that I'm kind.  I try to be nice and help people when I can.  I also try to give people the benefit of the doubt and try to see the good in them.
             I think that my worst quality is that I'm a no nonsense kind of person, especially when it comes to academics.  I sometimes don't realize that I make people angry or make them think I'm rude because I shush them and try to make things more controlled than they need to be.  It also makes me look like a goody-two-shoes, which isn't always a good thing.











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