Compare and Contrast Brainstorming

 Things I want                                                                  

• A Macbook                         

• New makeup 

• Jordan 4s

• A new phone case 

• A week off of school 

• A new job 

• Straight As

• To see my cousins 

• New hoodies 

• Wing Stop

• More sleep 

• To be able to sleep in 

• A trip to the beach 

• New AirPods 

• PJ pants 

• New hair products 

The Jury is Still on 

• Whether people should smoke or not.

• Why people wear shorts when it’s still very cold outside.

• My opinions on the Hunger Games movie I saw a year ago and don’t remember much of what happened.

• Why it’s so hard to wake up early even if I go to bed early.

• Why high school’s have been getting stricter every year

• Why Sunny days are happier than cloudy days. 

My Media and My Obsessions 

• The show “Outer Banks” 

• Taylor Swift’s music 

• Beta Squad on YouTube 

• Marvel movies (specificity Avengers Infinity War and Endgame)

• Sza’s music

• The book and movie “The Hate U Give”

• The movie trilogy “To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before”

• Basketball 

• Molly Mae on YouTube 

• NDL on YouTube

• The show “The Summer I Turned Pretty”

Things That Bother Me

• When people walk slowly in the hallways.

• When my ride makes me late to school.

• When it’s really cold in the mornings but hot later in the day. 

• When my alarm goes off while I’m in a deep sleep. 

• When the Wi-Fi stops working. 

• When people are rude to waiters 

• When kids pick in my little sister 

• When my little sister comes into my room to bother me while I’m doing work. 

• When there’s loud construction near my house when I’m trying to sleep. 

Compare and Contrast 

           The show “The Summer I turned Pretty” and the trilogy “To all the Boys I’ve Loved before” were both written by the same person, Jenny Han, who is an Asian-American author and screenwriter. You would think that they would be very similar, but they do have many differences. To start, they both have an Asian-American Lead which represents Jenny Han. The stories are similar in a way that they’re about the lead girl finding her love interest. In both stories, the lead is conflicted at some point on who to choose. The main characters in the stories are portrayed as shy, unpopular girls that don’t go out, or party,  but that changes as they step out of their comfort zone. Both stories have three main love interests for the protagonist, but ultimately two got left behind. 

           On the contrary, the two stories have many differences. In the series “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, the main character, Belly, is conflicted between two brothers. She has liked the older one her whole life, but the younger one suddenly showed interest which turned her head. She has changed her mind multiple times on who to choose, ultimately hurting both of the brothers. She is much more indecisive than Lara Jean, the main character in the trilogy “To all the Boys I’ve loved before”. Lara Jean has liked her older sister’s ex boyfriend for a while, but once he started dating her sister she stopped liking him. When they broke up, he started showing more interest in Lara Jean. By that time it was too late because she had already found someone else who happened to be the most popular guy in school, Peter. Lara Jean is very different from Belly because she knows who she wants. At the end of each movie in the trilogy, Lara Jean always ended up with Peter, even after everything they went through. On the other hand, Belly switched between which brother she wanted for all three seasons of the show. By doing that, she hurt them both in the end.