Sunday, January 8, 2012

Act IV: "A time you pretended to be something or someone you are not"


There is always that cliché of high school social life: pretending to be someone for someone else, whether it be a clique or a boyfriend or whatever. Freshman year I did, in fact, meet a boy. He was very sporty and athletic—something I am completely not. But it was a boy that was interested in me, and that, I can tell you, was a rarity. So what did I do? Whenever he talked about the Giants or Mets or whatever other sports team, I did my research and tried to keep up with his conversations, making him believe that I liked sports and the same teams as him, just to impress him and keep him interested. This can loosely be compared to The Crucible, as John Proctor admitted to being associated with the Devil, even though he never did anything wrong.

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