Picture yourself walking into a school that you have never been in. While walking up and down the long hallways you see your father’s friend whom is also your new neighbor. Also your new neighbor is well known around the area for her fashion styles, friends, parents, and wealth. For girls I can personally say that sometimes it might be hard to say that you live in the guesthouse of the most popular girl at the new school you go to. Yet sometimes it can be every girl’s nightmare. For Claire, that is exactly what it turns out to be.
In “The Clique”, by Lisi Harrison, Claire has to move to Westchester, New York from the warm climate of Orlando, Florida. Her dad gets a new job and has to move there. Claire meets Massie, the popular girl, and things go off hard. That is one thing that I would fear if I ever went to a new school or state and didn’t know anyone, because for some girls that is something we have a fear of. Especially for Claire because she seems to get homesick a lot. Also her little brother makes things worse for her. Even though I don’t have a little brother, I see my friends who have them and they seem to complain about living with them and not listening to stuff. Yet sometimes they can get along, but that is quite rare to happen. This is why I would hate to have a little brother. Yet things are worse already for Claire and she doesn’t deserve to be put through the nonsense he brings her. Like sneaking into Massie’s room. Being new and having a little brother that can irritate you, isn’t the best thing to happen to Claire. Yet it certainly isn’t the worse.
Claire has been not only tortured by her brother, but also by Massie. She has dumped food on Claire, used her to go to a party, lied, made fun of the way she dresses, and more awful things. I could never picture my friends doing that stuff to each other because we try to tell one another the truth. No matter how hard it is, we try to manage to tell them, unlike Massie and Claire’s friendship. At least Claire makes a friend named Layne along the way. Yet Layne isn’t as some people might say “the coolest person around” Claire sees past that and becomes friends with her. They are one of the closest friends in the book. Both of them do almost everything together. The best thing about both Claire and Layne is that they are different, similar to my friends and I. We wouldn’t really relate ourselves to anybody else because we have so different of personalities. Outsiders can be the best combination of a friendship, though, because they can relate to one another so easily. Just like me and my friends, even though we aren’t really outsiders.
Seeing past all of the friendship problems, Claire seems to be homesick a lot and misses her friends. Seeing Massie and her friends having a good time isn’t something she likes to really see. All that does to her wants her to move back to Orlando and see her friends again. Good thing she keeps in touch with all of them and has pictures from all of the good times they’ve had posted on her walls. Being homesick can be one of the worst things to happen. I’ve been homesick a lot before. This situation is when I went to Colorado; I missed my house, dad, pets, and friends. That trip was wonderful yet the only thing that made it bad was missing the things in Wisconsin. Thankfully I called and texted my dad and friends so I felt like I was never really gone.
Being separated from your friends, family, home, home town, and school is hard. That is how life is and sometimes you can’t change that. Even if you try to, you won’t manage to hold on to it forever. This is why Claire can inspire girls who have moved away from their home town to a new one. For Claire, her nightmare might just turn out to be a happy ever after.
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