The Fireside Book Chat

Tish is a teenage girl, who happens to write  in her school journal, Because she don’t have anyone to talk personally to. Tish likes to write when she is having trouble at home. Its almost like a hobby to her. Tish becomes comfortable writing because, she feels that she can write all her thoughts and feeling without anybody knowing about it. Tish dad comes back home after being gone for about 2 years. when her dad returned, he came back like he was never gone, he brought things fr them, and for mat birthday he brought mat the new game system that came out. she wished that is was better off when he wasn’t around. Tish kept thinking to herself that hes going to make things worse that what it already is. So at this point Tish is sad, and angry. She Kept thinking to herself, “its crazy how dad was gone for so long and yet we’ve never heard of him since, and till now he wants to return?”. Before Tish dad came home her little brother Matt didn’t knew who was his father, and their mom is depressed. Tish was the only one in the house who realized that. “I can connect to her situation, and why she feels the way she feels. She sad and angry inside shes really disappointed in her mom and little brother mat for accepting heir dad back home. and i found the passage interesting because it relates to real life event’s”

Tish and her family is poor. Shes the only one in her household who actually works, Since her mom don’t. Tish works at a fast food Restaurant called “burger boy”, she don’t get paid the best but its worth working for, in her position. Her mom don’t seem to help out as much. All her mom do is sit in that same rocking chair everyday when Tish comes home from school. Not only is she lazy, but irresponsible. Tish takes care of her little brother mat and takes him out to eat at “burger boy” where she works, whenever she has enough money left over. or when he did something good in school. Tish life is Tough, especially at her age. Shes too young to be having so many responsibility. “I like the way the author write, because it brings an images of how its like for her. I also think to myself of how she must feel as if she was a real person. That had me even more interested in the book.”

Tish got a lot going on in her life. So she writes everything in her journal, it takes out her anger, stress, and sadness. Everyday from school she writes on her journal and talks about what happen specifically. After awhile she gets use to writing in her journal, Tish ends up actually liking writing. Tish feels as if someone is listening to her and understands all her problems when she writes in her journal. So it all started in her English class, when everybody is assigned a notebook. For extra points they have to write entries about anything. Mrs.Dunphrey, the English teacher collects them, and if you don’t want her to read the journal entry, at the top of the page write don’t read. Tish on the other hand, Always marks her entry’s that way. She never let the teacher read not one entry, unless she’s making it up, just to stop hearing the teacher complain about her not letting the teacher not read her entry’s. Tish feels as though, if she let he teacher read her entry then shes afraid that she is going to tell everybody that shes having problems at home. “The whole book is based on these journal entry’s that Tish is writing, its Interesting to me because of how the book is setup that way and it makes me want to read more”

A teenage girl name Tish she writes her daily life on a school journal because, she don’t have anybody to personally talk too. Tish writes  on her spare of time, or whenever she’s alone. As time flies Tish become comfortable writing in her journal just to speak her mind on a sheet of paper about her day’s