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Noodle Soup For Nincompoops Analysis

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In the story Noodle Soup for Nincompoops by Ellen Wittlinger, Maggie realizes that time changes people. Maggie Cluny thinks that her best friend no longer likes her because she’s interested in different things than her. Liza is into things Maggie finds to be more girly, like the way she looks, and the clothes she wears, and especially, the boys. Maggie notices that Liza is acting a lot different one day when after school, Mr. C talks to Maggie and asks her if she could write for the school paper but that she to keep it a secret. Afterwards when Maggie meets up with Liza she gets angry at her for taking so long because she wanted to take a ride home with a boy named Robbie Piersall, a boy that Liza liked. Maggie then had told Liza “I don’t …show more content…

I can personally relate to both Maggie and Liza and see both points of view in this story. When I was in sixth and seventh grade I think I was like Liza more. I always wanted to act much older than I was and do more because of my age. I did a lot of negative things that aren’t appropriate for my age and was friends with a lot of bad people. I did get in a lot of negative situations for not acting my age. Thankfully i’ve gone through a lot and gotten past through my rebellious phase. In relation to maggie, i’m 13 but i’m mature about it. I know when it’s necessary for me to do things and I listen to my parents more and I prioritize things that are more important such as school. Time changes people and people can change the way they want to spend their time. In conclusion, I know that time changes people and what they want to do just like Liza in Noodle Soup for Nincompoops. I know that time has changed me and what I want to do and that will continue to be true throughout my whole lifetime. I have changed and gone through a lot of obstacles to become the person I am today, and I am still working on it. I hope that like in this story, people who aren’t in the best places in their lives understand that all it takes is time to change and become who you want to be and what you want to do, I would give that advice to myself as

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