The girls at school expected conformity; it has been bred into them, through years of uniforms and strict rules about proper behavior. I am thirteen and contrary, even as I yearn for acceptance. I declare myself a vegetarian and doom myself to a diet of cauliflower cheese and baked beans on toast. The administration does not question my decision; they assume it’s vague, undefined religious reasons, although my father, the doctor, tells them it’…showed first 75 words of 911 total…

…showed last 75 words of 911 total…uncertain and the question why. The tone of the paragraph provides feeling and emotion of the author. This paragraph helps to explain the essay by providing details of the narrator’s actions to help her fit in. It not only is a struggle to fit in, the narrator was struggling to find out who she was as a person and that was the theme of the whole essay, which was clearly demonstrated in this paragraph.