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Reflective Essay On Flipped

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Have you ever read a novel where you have something in common with a character? In the realistic fiction novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen I noticed that I had one of the same challenges as Bryce Loski.The challenge that both of us faced is Bryce attempting to convince Juli that he has changed and how I had to try to convince my friends that i had done nothing wrong and that I had changed for the better. In the novel Flipped, Bryce is challenged with proving to Juli he is changed.One way Bryce tries to convince Juli that he has changed was when he whispered to Juli “Juli,i'm sorry. I've never been so sorry about anything in my whole life.You're right I was a jerk, and I'm sorry”(Van Draanen 163).This shows that he really meant it and he was really sorry about it.Another way you can tell Bryce's apology was actually proving something to Juli was when Juli told Bryce “I was sorry for having been so fierce when we’d first come …show more content…

What happened was that I had accidently had told another person my friends secret and my friend was not happy about it. So what i did was promise I wouldn't ever do that again and I kept some other secrets so over time my best friend finally believed that I had changed. Another challenge that I had had to face was whee my friend didn't believe that I wasn't the one who took his new spinner toy. What happened was I asked him if I could borrow his new spinner toy and he said sure.By the end of the day it was with me but this kid asked if he could borrow it i said okay real quick and he ran off in the hall. So when I told my friend he still didn't believe me so I had to prove it to him by promising so many times that I didn't take it and he finally believed me after a few mins of me promising I didn't take it. In conclusion you should never give up on losing a

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