Yellow Star Retelling

Author's Note: I wrote this retelling piece on Yellow Star, by Jennifer Roy.  I had in mind the main struggles Sylvia and her family went through.

In the book Yellow Star, a little girl named Sylvia and her family are forced to move into the Lodz ghetto in command of the Nazi's in 1939.  Her family has to deal with starvation, terrible climate, and overall, being safe. Sylvia is 1 out of 12 children left in the ghetto including her sister, and this sad, but interesting book is told through Sylvia's perspective. I would recommend this book to people who like the holocaust and World War 2 topics.

Teenagers

                                                                                                                                                          

Teenagers now a days are very judgmental and  cruel to other kids in school.  Someone is constantly getting picked on no matter what the situation.  I believe that kids are not aware of how they mean they can be to another student.  Labeling people is another big thing that happens around school hours.  Bullies are labeling people on what they look like, who they talk to, how they dress, or even who they like.  Society is just filled with name calling, picking on, teasing, and the biggest one, labeling.

Everyone has that one group in school that they are just intimated by.  For me, that would be the “Popular” group.  It’s about 8 or 9 girls that walk with each other in the halls, and I just feel uncomfortable around them.  I feel as though I am below their standards of a “Popular” girl.  I used to be a part of that group, until one day they stopped talking to me because  I choose to talk with a different person that they didn’t like.  And honestly, I really didn’t need them as friends if that’s what they were going to do to me.  I always thought they were nice sincere people, until that one day came upon me.

There are the smart people, or (nerds), as people would call them, the jocks, popular group, and then, me.  My friends and I are just a group of about 7 or 8 girls who like to talk and just have gun.  We always sit by each other at lunch and we hang out after school a lot as well.  People think of us as the “drama” group, or so I’ve heard.  I mean yeah, we get into fights, but what group of friends doesn’t get a little annoyed of each other?  I think that people think of us that way simply because we kind of put ourselves out there because we don’t care what other people think of us.  If other people want to think that we have so much drama, let them think that because it’s not going to affect our friendships.

Labeling is one of my may pet peeve’s that people do around our school.  They say if you talk to a guy, you have a “thing” with them or visa-versa.  They say a guy likes a guy, or a girl likes a girl, it’s gross and disgusting.  Personally, I don’t care who other people like because frankly, it’s not my business and if that’s who they like, than that’s who they like.  Right?  Also, if someone is nice to a person they just met, they are considered “fake”.  Or if someone is speaking their mind, they are called mean.  Teenagers now a day’s are getting so judgmental and cruel to other kids.  I want to put a stop on it, but unfortunately I can’t control what comes out of others’ mouths, only mine.

Now you know what goes on during school hours, you hopefully will understand why I want to stop labeling, teasing, and bullying.  I hate when people do that to other kids because the bullies will not put an end to it.  I hope future generations will learn to be more respectful, considerate, and just plain nicer to others’.