Can You Get An F In Lunch? by Nancy Krulik

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This essay was written for the assignment where the students wrote about how a book reminded them of something that happened in their own lives. Eunice is a 6th grader who moved to this country only three years ago. I can't imagine having to learn an entirely new language, and being able to write some well with it.

The book Can You Get an F In Lunch? By Nancy Krulik reminds me of the time I was lonely and I was in a whole new place that I had never been before. Have you ever been lonely and in a place that you had never been before? Well, I have and so has Jenny, the main character in the story. If you had experienced it before, then you might know how Jenny and I felt during that terrible time. It is hard for people to be at a new place without any friends nearby.

Jenny is in a whole new place, a place that she had never been before, but she wasn’t afraid nor worried because she knew that her best friend, Addie, would be right next to her. But who could have thought Addie would change so much after one summer? Jenny soon found that Addie was not the Addie she used to be anymore. She was now mean and popular in school. Now it was hard for Jenny to be in a place where she was new and had to get over the loss of her best friend. How would Jenny survive the rest of the days in middle school?

I had been through the same thing as Jenny had in third grade. In third grade, I was new to this country and the school; to make matter worse, there was no one there to help me. I had to follow my classmates around, but I could feel they didn’t welcome me. I usually hoped Wednesday could come sooner so that I could get home faster. The only friend I had at school was my teacher. Because I was new and foreign, students from other classes made fun of my brother and me.

Jenny had to sit in the phone booth during lunchtime since she did not have anywhere to sit. So when Chloe invited Jenny to sit with her and her other friends, Jenny was thrilled. Now Jenny had many friends that could be with her when she needed support. I didn’t have anywhere to sit at lunch when I was in third grade, but everything changed when I got into fourth grade. There I made lots of friends and lots of support. So both Jenny and I were popular after we had made lots of friends. But how long would it last? That problem did not occur to us yet. As long as we had friends, we were okay.

Both Jenny and I had a lot in common. We were both lonely once, but got popular soon after we made some friends. When we were lonely, the only thing we wanted was friends, not money or toys. Why were friends all we wanted? Friends support us when we have a problem and they make us feel better when we are angry or sad. Why not choose money and toys to be our company? Well, because money and toys don’t help us as much as friends do.

-Eunice, 6th grade

Can You Get An F In Lunch? by Nancy Krulik