Quarter 4: Outside Reading #4

While Bee and Eric are getting along and are enjoying each others company, Carmen saw Win again at the hospital when she brought Katherine there. Carmen is getting nervous and frustrated, because since Win keeps seeing her do favors for others, she thinks that he is seeing her for someone who she really is not. Lena is still pursuing her dream of going to RISD and is taking extra job shifts to make money to help her pay for the fees for the school because her dad will no longer pay for it. She talked to a women at the financial aid office, and if Lena sends in her portfolio , there is one more scholarship that she could potentially earn. While Tibby is moping around still about the guilt of Katherine's injury, she starts to think of her family's old nanny, Loretta, who she didn't really like every but now that her parents fired her irrationally, she starts to realize all the good things that Loretta brought to her family. So, Tibby decides to pay Loretta a visit, just to make sure that she is doing okay without a job and just because she misses her. When Loretta saw Tibby, she lovingly welcomed her and acted as if nothing happened. Tibby is somewhat envious of Loretta's ability to just let bad things go,"Some people spent their lives wallowing in resentments, and other people, like Loretta, let ill fortune wash right over them"(Brashares 155). By the recent demonstration of Tibby's moping, obviously Tibby is not one of those people who don't let bad fortune bother them. This quality is not something that Tibby wants, it is just apart of who she is, in fact she would prefer to be more like Loretta in that sense. Considering nobodies life is ever perfect, I predict that later on in the book other misfortunes will happen in Tibby's life, and she will strive to improve on letting these bad events bother her, and keep living her normal life as if nothing affected her.