/lit/ - Literature

Here's an entry from my journal/my diary desu.

>Savannah is also a junior, at a different school, and fits the popular girl stereotype exactly. She is tall, skinny, and blonde. She has fine features and is pleasant to look at. Once while working with her I was struck by her straight hair, slender nose, and green eyes as she looked at me and smiled. She is loud and obnoxious. She hates math and often tells me so, and has a habit of looking at a problem on a practice test and musing that, “Oh, I know how to do that problem, but I just don’t want to right now, it’s too much work.” She doesn’t even try to do many problems that she can figure out easily enough when she’s asked to. She has no confidence in her capacity to solve problems, and is pretty dumb; her newest practice ACT was graded at a 22. Despite this and her lack of motivation to even improve, she desperately wants to attend USC, which is where her brother and father went.

>During our session, after trying and failing to teach Brookelyn something about trigonometry, I turned around towards Savannah to continue working through her test corrections. Predictably, she was on her phone. She said sorry and asked me to give her a minute, and then volunteered that the she was signing forms to purchase a brand new Ford Bronco, which will be in Area 51 color, as apparently they are only accepting offers in a one-month window. At this, a flash of surprise seized me for a moment. Whether that surprise stemmed from the price of a brand new Ford Bronco or my sense of her impropriety I am not sure, but then I realized that that sort of thing is not uncommon. Does that make her upper class, or is this something a middle-class household can afford? Also surprising was that she revealed all this not with the excitement that is often characteristic of her, and which might be characteristic of any teenager speaking about a brand new car that is soon to be hers, but with subdued displeasure at the inconvenience of having to sign forms, with the indifferent determination inherent in the peripheral tasks that are necessary to achieve what is desired. “I have to go pick up my coffee at Starbucks, I have to peel off the skin of the garlic before I can mince it, I have to sign these forms on my phone so I can get my brand new Ford Bronco.”

Does that make her upper class?