Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in High School Quest for Cool By Hannah Friendman (biography)

      In the book "Everything Sucks" written by Hannah Friedman starts off talking about her family and the only sibling she had was a monkey named Amelia. Hannah was the firstborn human but Amelia was the firstborn. “You see, I am the firstborn human, but Amelia was the first born."(Page1) Her mom had adopted Amelia when she was working for a program that trained monkeys to assist quadriplegics. Amelia was kidnapped from South Africa by poachers, and then sold to Egyptian merchants who took her teeth out and thought her how to steal. She was then taken to California where she was near death when Hannah's mom adopted her. Her dad was on a music tour and agreed to let her mom keep Amelia for a few weeks but no one knew that she would have lived that long which was twenty-nine years ago. Hannah was a bit annoyed by Amelia at times. She then goes on to talk about her life as a kid: Going through puberty, trying to fit in, in Private school and trying to find friends. She also talks about how she was bullied. She started facing insecurity in High school and became anorexic because she was trying to fit in in this popular group call "The Great Eight." That didn't work out so well for her so she got involved with this guy named Julian and she started smoking. Then she started living another life with this group called the “train gangs” which she then got involve in alcohol. She got a job at a newly opened restaurant as a waitress. Hannah started dating this boy named Adam and decided to have sexual intercourse which brought on some complication which she later regret after the whole school found out about it. She then applied for which she didn’t get into and it broke her heart because she had put in a lot of hard work applying and writing essays. Hannah gets more involve involved in drugs and starts doing cocaine. Her boyfriend caught her doing it and didn’t like the idea at first but was later influenced by her to do it. She was later caught by her parents with a pipe and she lied and said that it was Julian’s. When her mom confronted Julian about it, he said that it wasn’t his and her mom then new that she was the one who stole the money from her dad, which he denied that she would ever do. Her dad was disappointed that she had lied to them about it. Hannah learned that the best way to survive in high school is to be herself. She then wrote an article on her friends in the school newspaper without putting their names in it, which she thought they would appreciate her for but they hated it and started to taunt her. The principal tried to get her expelled by saying that she had sexual intercourse with Julian in the school but her mom got everything fixed. Her boyfriend, Adam, got arrested and she started to cut herself. One day when she was cutting herself she called Julian to help her stop and he kissed her and told her that he was in love with her which came as an surprise to her.

Quotation:“I am the worst daughter in the world.”

Reaction: This was when she had lied to her parents about the pipe and the money stealing and they had found out about it and her dad looked at her in disappointment and she then said that she was the worst daughter. I don’t think that she is the worst daughter in the world because many have done worst, but she is a bad daughter for lying to her parents, having sexual intercourse and doing drugs behind their back. This quote shows that she felt guilty of doing it so maybe in the future she wouldn’t do it again.