Common Reading Reaction Paper

Its common knowledge that there will be many people to be encountered in life that you sens link up to in i way or another. I find myself relating to Mishna Wolff from Im Down in many ways. From sharing very similar experiences to having around identical personality traits, I can with let out a doubt identify with Mishna. Its inevitable while youre growing up and learning new things in school, you assume yourself to other individuals with similar interests or just sh be some sort of chemistry. In other words, your best friend or BFF as others would like to knell them.Ive unendingly had a best friend, even from an early age (3 years-old to be exact). It just so happens that my inaugural best friend was African-American. I never apothegm myself different from her, where being white or black had no importance in my mind. There were many times where Id spend the night at her house, and her family would be over. Id never felt more out of place. The loud and rowdy conversations, t he slang Id never heard, and just the atmosphere was totally different. This is where I feel I can relate to Mishna, when she began capping with the neighborhood kids to fit in.I had always felt the need to change how I spoke and behaved around her family. I had never felt more out of place. In addition to fitting in, Mishna had similarly joined many different sports to please her father and win back (or an equal amount) of favoritism. I can also identify with this experience as well. All throughout my childhood I had hopped from one sport to another, from taking agonizing ballet classes, swimming, soccer, and finally cheer-leading. At first I started involved myself in them because I wanted to try something new but it ended up being because I was competing for attention from my junior comrade.My brother had been playing baseball since he was six years old. My mother and father, and even some of my extended family would never fail to watch every single one of his games. My father would emerge himself in my brothers baseball practice, spending hours after-school coaching him and some of his teammates. With all this attention spent on my brother and his baseball, I had always felt left out. My parents would drop me send off at my own practice and neither one of them involved themselves in any sport I was in. Mishna is conceive of in the book to be, for the most part, fairly easy-going and doesnt let too many things bother her.When her father says something outrageous or just plain unfair, she resorts to keeping everything to herself. I can also relate to her in this way. There are many times when someone says something I disagree with and Im able to just shrug it off and not let it affect me. However, there are many things Mishna did that I dont see eye-to-eye with. When Mishnas father told a group of people right in appear of her that Anora was his girl and just let it slide like that, see, I wouldnt let that go as easily. To me, thats something extremely disturbing to hear, seeing as your father is supposed(a) to love you unconditionally.Had it been my next to the stairs eavesdropping on that conversation, I wouldnt have thought it over twice to call my mother and go live with her. Moreover, if I was Mishna, I wouldnt have let Anora get away with everything. The unfairness is just incomprehensible and I would never allow it to go as far as it did. If my younger sibling did things that were inappropriate or was doing something wrong and one of my parents just shrugged it off like Mishnas father did, I would have said something or acted in the equal manner as Anora until everything was justified.Had Mishna done something about it, I dont think things wouldnt have gotten as bad as they did regarding her sister. Ultimately, Mishna and I are very alike in the things we think and do. I have been able to relate to almost every experience she shared with us in Im Down, from the problems of fitting in to the problems with her father. I fe el that all these things make us the person we are today, and for that, we shouldnt be ashamed of any of it. Mishna writing this book just shouts to be proud of who you are and where you come from.