Being Afraid

In reading, the story of “No Escape” from The Mee Street Chronicles, which was written by Frankie Lennon the narrator, finds herself in a situation. The narrator is frightened and does not really know what to do. I feel that what I thought of the little girl was that she was scared and had a very good imagination. The two characters traits that she demonstrates are confused and determination. I feel that we all have times like this one in, which we feel that we need to get out and look for help or just deal with it. Sometimes we just feel that we have to do things to get over our fears and that helps a lot.

In the story I felt that the little girl was just making a story up which really was interesting. As I kept reading, I noticed how the little girl was scared and had no way out of her situation. She really did not know what to do or who to look for since she could not find anyone she was looking for. I think that it really caught my attention because she was very descriptive and I could really see all of this happening to her. I also thought that the little girl was just not really opening her eyes to see that none of that was happening. I think that the narrator really gave enough information for me to want to be there with her and help her to escape that situation.

I thought that two character traits that the narrator had were that she was confused and determined as well. I felt that she was confused because she did not know what to do and where to go to look for help. She also had no clue why all of this was happening to her and what she could do to make it stop. Another thing that makes me feel this is because she really does not know whom is the person talking to her. I felt that she was determined because even though she was frightened she still found ways to a way out of her situation. She was willing to risk her life and not worry about what was going to happen next. The only thing narrator wanted to do was find her parents and she did all kinds of things for that. I find that she was really showing her determination in doing that.

I feel that there was times were I too felt that I was afraid and did not have the strength at the time to face it. I feel that with the story my situation rather relates because I was also afraid. One of the many situations that I could not face was moving from a public school to a catholic school. I felt this way because I really was not like all these kids at my new school. I was different and going from a school were I had known these people from like kindergarten to having to make new friends because I was going to a different school now.

I was about twelve years old when I had finished sixth grade and was going to move into junior high. My parents decided that I needed to get away from my old friends and move to a new school. I was mad because I had friends who where with me since kindergarten and now we were going to have to say good-bye forever. I was going to go to a place that I had never seen before and it was not familiar to me at all.

As I walked into the school, I felt like everybody was looking at me. It was the first day of school and I did not recognize any faces at all. I felt that I could was look around to see of anybody would even come up to me to say a word. I walked up to the school principal and she talked to me for a while until finally some girls came over. They introduced themselves and I made new friends.

I think that we all have bad situations in our life that we have to face. It is a shame that we cannot always get over our fears, as we would want. In the story, I learned that we sometimes have to go for things and face than just walk away. We should all think this way and I am glad that I read this because I have been able to learn from it.