I tried to read the whole chapter all at once, but I could not get the topic when I first read it. The characters and the things happening in the story were hard to catch. I was also overwhelmed by the amount of the reading . When I read it for the second time, I could understand general topic and how the characters are related to each other. I didn’t have to read every word to catch the connection between the passages.
Rose is describing how it was like to be in the Vocational Education. He was accidentally put into the program by the school’s mistake. The program is for the students who are in lower level. He met different types of people in the class and majority of them were troublemakers. Rose however notes that some of them had special qualities. ‘I just wanna be average’ is a quote from Rose’s classmate, and Rose did not understand it while he had to switch from Vocational Education to College Prep. He was not sure whether or not he could do well on a regular school setting. He meets an English teacher called ‘Macfarland’ and he becomes Rose’s mentor. The teacher guide Rose into finding better himself and finally lead him to college. I think the lesson he wants the reader to know is the importance of finding someone who can help find one’s potential and have positive impact on his life.
