Junior High: An American Saga
Graduation Date
Spring 2011
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program Name
Humanities
First Reader
Joan Baranow, PhD
Second Reader
Carlos Rodriguez, MA
Abstract
Years after an experience, you see it differently. You see it clearly. An event seems vivid right when it happens, but only time can show you what it meant and what it really taught you. Take junior high school. When you’re in it, you don’t care about learning—only surviving. The class bully wants a piece of you. You can’t hit a baseball. You can’t dance. Girls reject you. You’re wearing floods. You’re not cool. The following stories, as true as 1 can tell them, try to make adult sense out of junior high. They may not be your stories, but then again, maybe they are.
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