The book Ruby Unscripted by Cindy Martinusen-Colma was about Ruby who used to attend Cottonwood High School realizes the changing of different schools when she moved to Marin County High. Ruby, a 10th grader at Marin County High School discovers that she doesn’t fit in with the people that attend her new school. Ruby went from being popular and having nice clothes to finding out that when compared to the other students at her new school she had nothing.
The students at Ruby’s new school have everything top of the line whether it is from shoes to cars. None of the kids have to work because their parents pay for everything, unlike Ruby, she has to work at a café that her aunt owns. Ruby has a hard time knowing who her friends are because she left them all in Cottonwood. So Ruby decided if she’s going to have to live in Cottonwood she might as well try to adapt to it.
Ruby has a gay friend who helps her with the clothing situation and gave her all his sisters’ old clothes. It seemed like just because she started to “fit in” she also started to change her personality. She started to lose contact with her best friend Kate for her new friends in Marin County. Kate would text her or send her an I.M. on the computer and Ruby would usually put it off while she talked to the other people. Ruby beings to become a little self-absorbed when she finds out that her best friend Kate has a big secret. When Kate told her the secret, Ruby only thought of how she felt instead of how Kate felt. One night Ruby decided to leave the house while her mom and step-dad were gone, Ruby went out with a friend to a party. That was extremely unusual for Ruby though. Ruby usually almost never disobeyed her mom or her step-dad. While Ruby got grounded for going out that night she got time to think. She had realized how far away she was to God and how she almost forgot about him in her life. Ruby tries to get back with her relationship with God and goes to church every Sunday, and actually listens to what is being said. Ruby believes that if she really tries God will help her with the move and help her get through high school.
Ruby goes through a lot of changes after she moves to Marin County High School in CA. First Ruby has to work at her aunt’s café called the Underground. The Underground is a common place after school with the kids from Main County High School. One day when Ruby was working at the café a group of the popular girls came in for coffee after school. Ruby had to go over and ask what they wanted. Right away a girl spoke up and said “Hey isn’t that the new girl?” Ruby instantly started blushing and got really embarrassed because everyone at Marin High School don’t need jobs because they’re parents give them anything they want. The girl started making fun of Ruby for having to actually work at the café. Ruby was getting mad because it was just her first day of school and she wasn’t at all in the mood to get crap from anyone. So Ruby decided to stand up her herself and told the other girl off. The girl got up from her seat and told Ruby that was no way to treat a customer if you want business and the rest of the girls group got up and left. Ruby then realized that one girl stayed behind. Her name was London. London was so proud of how Ruby stood up to the other girl just like that. London knew how big of a jerk the other girl was, so London said see ya around school and that they should hang out sometime. At least someone was able to leave the café on a good note.
I think Ruby did the right thing to stand up for herself. I don’t think there is anything worse as you grow up to be around a bunch of stuck up girls who act like they have everything and they are just so much better than you are. If Ruby would’ve just started yelling and freaking out, then I think that would’ve been way over the top. Ruby handled herself very casually and basically just told the other girl to back off, and she did so it worked. If someone made fun of me for working then that’s they’re problem. How do they think they’re parents get money to pay for all their expensive things that they want?
I really enjoyed reading Ruby Unscripted by Cindy Martinusen-Colma. Although I’m pretty sure only a girl would read it. Ruby can pretty much help you will almost any problem you have out there. For example she has guy problems just like every girl in the world faces sometime in their life. She’s also trying to figure out who she really is and who she wants to be and so on. Of course Ruby can’t help you with all your problems though. This book can also help you realize what you want to do and what you can do to fulfill your dreams of doing whatever it is that you desire. This book isn’t like a reality TV show on paper. Ruby Unscripted has about zero drama compared to a reality TV show.
Ruby faces challenges that not every ordinary teenager deals with on an everyday basis. For example Ruby starts to lose her best friend Kate because she has a college boyfriend now. Ruby’s friend spends almost all her time with her college boyfriend and starts to lose contact with Ruby because her friend Kate lives back in Cottonwood. I can honestly say that this was a really good book and I would recommend it to almost any girl beginning to go through their high school years.
Nicely done. I liked that you pulled out that Ruby was self absorbed and used proof from your text to support that.
ReplyDeleteThe second part of your report was wonderful. It seemed like you really thought about what you were writing and what you had read - a huge purpose for writing out this report. I used to thing that Ruby was a silly name - now I kind of like it after reading your well done report!