The Blame Game Speak up for Yourself In Rene Steinke's novel, "Friendswood", Willa Lambert is a smart, religious, 15 year old girl just trying to fit in like everyone else in high school. Willa's high school crush is senior Cully Holbrook; the most popular, football jock at her school. When walking through the halls from a club meeting Cully and his friends stop Willa to invite her to lunch at the Lawbornes house the next week. As a senior Cully and his friends have the privledge to leave for lunch, but not Willa. But you don't turn down Cully Holbrook. The Lawbornes are out of town, when Willa arrives. She finds herself as the only girl at the 'party' but only focuses on being with Cully. With nothing but 2 drinks of vodka and Red Bull in her system Willa finds herself 'blacked out', something un-usual even for a first time drinker like Willa. The next morning Willa wakes to find herself in a unfamiliar bed with blood on the s...
To Lie or Not to Lie ... that is question posed in Guy De Maupassant's short story, The Necklace . Mathilde, is a "pretty and charming" girl whom, according to herself, was born in the wrong class-- she is meant to be rich; she was supposed to be born with all the delicacies and all the luxuries. But " as though she had really fallen from her proper station", she suffers in her own poverty. Mathilde is married to a "little" clerk. He does his best to give her what he can, but even in his best efforts it does not please her. Mathilde's husband fought to obtain an invitation, for his wife and himself, to a ball where only the most prestigious, and highly classed people attend. At the presentation of this invitation, Mathilde becomes irritated with her ...