Journal #6

Explain how a character in the book changed or is starting to change in the section you are responding to?

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she needs to cut her hair to say good-bye to the girl who took orders and did what she was told ; However she didn't turn her back on responsibilities, but she changed the way she accept them.

Explains and supports
In the quote,we can infer that Georgie decides to change not only her appearance but also her attitude. Before she has the new hair cut, she is used by Mark to do some illegal job for him without telling David. Georgie discovers the truth after David get angry at what she has done to help Mark. Also, she has tried to sneak into the Mark's house to steal documents that can get David out of troubles. She is busy being an good girl and taking every order from others. She is tired of getting controlled by David and Mark, so she decides to change herself. She doesn't want to care about what other people think anymore because she decides to be herself now. She doesn't want to keep living under others' expectations.

Why the quote is important to the novel?
The quote is important to the navel because it is the moment that the main character Georgie start to change herself. After having hair cut, she realizes that what she need is not a new hair style. The most of important that she finds out is her confidence. She is full of confidence after she changes her hair style. She decides that she is not going to follow what other people want her to do. From now on, she is going to be the one who can decide her choices. Now, She understands why Audrey Hepburn who is the main character in her favorite movie called Roman Holiday would like to have hair cut. She doesn't cut it for romance or adventure because she cuts it to show that she is going to be an responsible queen who can be the leader of England. In the end of the novel, Georgie finally realizes the main theme about Roman Holiday. Roman Holiday is not only had romance and adventure, but also tell us how to make our decision which will affect our future.

Why the quote is significant to you?
This quote is significant to me because I also think every decision will lead to different result, so we need to have the responsibilities for our own choice. Before we make any choice, we should think it careful , so we are not going to regret our decision in the end. I believe our life is make of lots of choices and decisions. It is very important that we are on the right direction all the time because each decision that we have made can end up different result. We should choose the choice which is good for ourselves. Most of important of all, we should decide our choice by ourselves. It is okay that taking others' advice , but we should combined others and our idea together to figure out the final decision. Each person should be the one who makes him/her decision without being bothering by others' opinion.

Connect this quote to the "bigger picture "
There are more and more people pursue the style or brand of product. However, these are only the name of product. We just need to wear what we want to wear without others' thoughts. We need to share our own style instead of running after the fashion. It is important to be ourselves. If we are lost ourselves, we are going to lost our confidence, too. We need to be confident to ourselves and taking others' advice so that we won't be controlled by others. We are what we look like, so we don't need to really care about others' opinion. We should be able to do what we want to do and enjoy our freedom. It is our responsibilities to take care of what we wear, but we shouldn't break the rules or unlimited.