Friendship: A path to love and enmity

      How would someone feel if their first friend turned out to be there best friend? It would feel awesome to have a best friend who is also that person's best friend. This is how Bree Tanner feels after she meets Diego who becomes her first and best friend. After 3 months of trying to not get attention after Bree becomes a vampire, life got easier when Diego befriends her and they turn into best friends. But I think their friendship has a possibility of turning into something else.
      In the book, The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer creates a world of vampires that tries to fit in with the humans. Bree, a curious but scared vampire, is a newborn trying to fit in with the group of vampires created by a very powerful vampire. Bree always tries to not get noticed, not even from the teenage group of vampires because they are dangerous. Vampires can tear each other apart and every month, one of the leaders of the clan would kill a few vampires either from anger or irritation. After Bree and Diego becomes friends, they realize they are the pawns of a huge game. In the book, its easy to notice how Bree's feeling toward Diego changes becuase she starts to think about how cute Diego is and how sweet and different he is from the other vampires in the clan. And, I think Diego is also starting to like Bree since he even kissed her twice. This shows how Bree and Diego's relationship is changing from strangers to best friends to a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
      I think through this Stephenie Meyer is trying to tell us that friendship has a possibility to turn into anything including love and even enmity. Friendship is a powerful thing and everyone needs a friend in their life but sometimes friendship can turn onto something totally unexpected because friendship is such a beautiful thing it can turn to something bad or good. In a scale, friendship is in the middle because it's neither enmity nor love so through friendship it's always hard to identify if two people's relationship turns to enmity or love, or if it stays the same.
      In reality, this might occur but not through two peoples recent friendship because in real life everything is unpredictable not like stories in a book where if someone knows part of the story, they have a pretty good idea about what will happen next. In reality, a person has to know another person to really decide what title to give them, either friend, enemy or lover. To make right choices one has to know about one's options to decide what path they want to take and this is one of the places in life where someone needs to decide between what's right and what's wrong.  

A Guide

      When someone hears, "young adult literature" they probably think of teen romance aand issues in young adults life. Well, forget that kind of literature and move on to "young adult zombie literature." In Banished, Sophie Littlefield creates a world of Healers and zombies. 16 year old Hailey is a healer, a teen with the power to heal anyone but she finds out about her powers after she meets her aunt Prairie for the first time. Before, Hailey's life was a mess that she was trying so hard to fix. Her grandmother is a drug- dealer who only adopted Chub, Hailey's brother, for the money Chub should get for being only a baby boy. After Prairie arrives, Hailey faces traumatic changes in her life and her whole world turns upside down. She learns about her mother who she thought died giving birth to her but who actually commited suicide at age 14. Hailey gets caught in a race to stop an evil man who wants Hailey to work with him to create zombies by healing the dead. All this is too much to bear in a matter of 6 days even for teens but when a teenager has someone to guide them they can acomplish anything even the impossible.
     Before Prairie came to Haileys life, Hailey was unable to do anyhting. She couldn't support Chub and her dog, Rascal and she couldn't escape Gypsum, Missouri which was her dream. She had many problems living in a house with her grandmother but the biggest was that her grandmother had friends who misbehaved with her. Even though her grandmother was there to see everything she didn't say anything. When Prairie showed up, for the first time Hailey felt like she can trust soemone. She felt like there is someone in her world who can show her the truth after living a life full of lies created by her grandmother. This is what everyone wants, not just teens. People don't like to live a life of lies they want to know the truth, th truth about who they are.
     Through what Hailey is feeling, Sophie Littlefield is trying to say that teenagers need mentors in life. They need someone who could give them advice, show them the right path when they feel lost and comfort them when they can't face all the obstacles that life throws at them. Littlefield is trying to tell the reader that guides are necessary in one's life, it is difficult for someone to accomplish something without the help of someone that someone can trust. The whole book is about how to reach ones goal when someone is there to support others. This shows that the author is trying o say that it's not a bad thing to ask for help once in a while.
      Teens should break their shells so someone can reach out to them and give them support they need. A lot of teens have a secret or something that they are struggling with and its important for them to to ask for help. It doesn't matter who but as long as someone is there to help, teens should go to them because oneday no one might be there for someone to ask for help for.