My Own Worst Enemy Essay -- English Literature

My Own Worst EnemyWhat would happen to you if you must live your conduct in the hidden ofyour trustworthy self-importance? The book that I recently read is called My Own WorstEnemy written by Carol Sonenklar hence it was published in 1999 bythe scholastic Inc. In the book, eventide Belkin is a young-teen girl whohas just moved to Michigan because of the returning of her mother tomedical field works. Eve has hard times in her old school of gettingfit-in. Therefore she decided moving to a new place is a greatopportunity to reinvent herself. She started to live her life underplaying a role of a normal girl who dresses nice and neat all the timeto impress her family of course. And yes, Eve gets good returns forwhat she gave out. She got world friends with two very popular normalgirls, Lisle and Kristine. Yet she does not really want them though,because their behavior toward peoples around them is very cold. Evestrue self later was exposed to everyone at school, after Lislesurprisin gly discovered how Eve Belkins true self is really look likeat home. Eve decided not to act or dress like some(prenominal)one else anymore,because she got enough of uncomfortable out from it, and beside, shesaid to herself why bothers being someone who is shes really hate. Therefore Eve started to be herself again by wearing her favoritecomfy gray outfits to school. She still got friends who like her. lastly Eve gets to understand the fact that fitting-in is maybe wasnot a great idea at the first start because maybe everyone was meantto be different and original. Eve Belkin has a few problems in her life. And mostly it gotinfluenced from her family troubles. Her father has just lost his carcompany job. And for a year, he could not find... ... inreality for a teen girls life. For instance Sonenklar usescleanaholic to describe how crazy Eves mother is with herneatness. She uses good sense of humor to grab readers attentions.She got a good sense of expressive style and tone in the story. She knows whenthe tone should be up and down. Throughout the whole story, the tonewas kind of suspicious because Eves condition was always nauseous andworried. By doing this, it helps readers to feel the main charactersfeelings better. It helps because readers are able to put themselvesinside of the main characters shoe. I would like to introduce thisbook to some of my friends, especially to the girlfriends, because Iknow they will love this book since it is so touching and so trueabout our girls live of being a young lady in a family. Well over all,it is such a great book I know you will enjoy it too