Talk:Stonewords

By Amanda Bloom

Dear diary, I am so confused I don’t know what to do. What do you do when your best friend needs your help but if you help her then you guys can’t be friends anymore? I know we fight sometimes but she is my best friend, she was there when my mom wasn’t. I know grandma and Pop Pop have taken such good care of me, but Zoe Louise is my best friend. No one understands the way I feel because no one else can see her. I know I should help her because then she will be in a much better place and I know she will be much happier, but then what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to feel? Does being a good friend mean that sometimes you have to sacrifices your own feelings for someone you care about? Is that what I should do? I think that is what I will do; I am going to help Zoe Louise because she is my friend. She was there for me when I needed her and now I am going to do the same for her. Just because we won’t be together all the time doesn’t mean she still can’t be my best friend. Instead of me looking at her with my eyes I will think of her in my head, and feel her in my heart; I will do this for Zoe Louise because she is my best friend and I want her to be happy.

Writers Note: I wanted to do a diary entry because I think it is a good way to show the internal conflict that Zoe was experiencing, and a diary is a good place to see the debate going on inside of her head. I also chose to have Zoe writing about what she should do with her friend because I think friendship is a major theme in this book.