Reflection2 for Peaches

The most important experiences in your life are the ones that you remember. Those experiences are the ones that taught you to be who you are and the ones that hold your mistakes. The ones that show you who you are are the experiences that came from the people you think as your role models. These people are usually your parents when you are little. When you learn from them, you start to use their way of living, ours. Because of them, you are who you are. As you go on in life, you start to meet people and you learn to change your self according to them. The more people you meet that are different to you, the more you learn and the more you can change who you are. This is what I think happened to Leeda, Birdie and Murphy. They came from different families that they learned to be like. Then when they met each other, the started to learn from each other and grow stronger.

Leeda grew up from a family in which every one had to be perfect. Her mother, grandmother and sister were always the top people in their neighborhood and she had to be just like them. She noticed that she was not like them and that she was unique to them. She was always pressured by her family to be the best. Her older sister was the one that got all the attention in her family so she grew up trying to follow by her steps. She found that whatever she did was not as good as her sister and that she would always be ignored. When she met Birdie and Murphy, she noticed that it was ok to be different. She was able to gain the strength to show her family that she was a good person even though she didn’t follow her sister’s steps. She learned that her mother always loved her even though she didn’t show it very well.

Birdie was from a family that fought a lot. Her parents were getting divorced when her favorite place, the orchard, was falling apart. She found her self caught in-between her parents. She was in the middle of something that she could not handle. She was supposed to take care of the orchard and fix her parents problems all by her self. Also, her parents started using her as a messenger. They started to take of all their steam on her just because she was there. When she was living with only her father, he was too sad about the divorce that he didn’t realize that her daughter was growing up. He was still treating her like a child until she gain the strength to tell him that she was growing up. Murphy and Leeda taught her to stand up for herself and show her father who she really was. Without her too friends, she wouldn’t have been able to stand up for herself when she was in problems.

Murphy came from a family with no father and an irresponsible mother. She learned from her mother that to get what you want; you have to fight and put your self on top of the other. Her mother was very young and was always dating other guys. She did not know how to raise her daughter. This is why her Murphy was always a trouble maker. She was a very good student but she was scared to show other people her strengths. She didn’t know how to show friendship to other people because then she would have to tell other people about her. She learned from her mother that she had to be secret. Leeda and Birdie taught Murphy to be nicer to people. They taught her that the violence was not the only way to get peoples attention. They showed her how to be more open to new things and new people. They were able to make her change and be able to become a better person.

These three girls came from very different families that were all missing something. They were all missing love. The three girls weren’t loved from anybody of their family. Birdie’s parents were too busy fighting. Murphy’s mother was too busy going out with guys. Leeda’s parents were too busy congratulating the older sister. None of them had love from their family so they gave it to each other. At the orchard they learned from each other and because they cared for each other, they were able to have love. Together they all felt like there was a reason to wake up the next morning.