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Salts Question:

In ture notebooks the characters all seem to come from similar backgrounds rough neighborhoods and gangs, that type of life is all they knew and in their notes it seems now that they are in the juvenile hall they have time to think and they wonder what else is out there other than the violence and crime they've known. from their notes they seem very depressed and lonely. Jimmy wrote "As I stand here I wonder how I became who I am and why I feel nothin but coldness and loneliness". I remember when I started public school, after attending private school for half of my life. The kids were rude and didn't like me at all they gave such a hard time. I would get into fights and get suspended, then come back and fight some more. It seemed like the only way to get the respect by bashing their heads in (like the teachers at private school use to do to us when we act up). After all that there were still people who wanted to try and bully me because I was proper, my mother made sure I wore clean uniforms everyday and my father picked me up from school. I learned the reasons I wasn't liked and thank god I ended up back in private school with other kids who knew not to act up and waste their parents money.

C.J.s Question

The way Mark thinks in true notebooks remind me of how I sometimes think. Then guys in the juvenile hall are thought of as dangerous and no good not worth anything by the way the hall is described as unsafe it seems they don't care for them at all. How they are referred to by Mr. Sills and how he doesn't trust them to have class on Wensday because there is so much movement. In my chemistry class I had a teacher and he was arab and he smelled so horrible everyday and he never cleaned his hands, after that everytime I would go to a store where someone of that similar race/culture or whatever would be there I would walk back out or I would try to give correct change so that they wouldn't accidentally touch my hand when giving me the money back. I remember one man got mad at me and the owner came out and his wife and they were always so nice to me I feel ridiculous now.