How does the narrator of "The One Who Watches" change from the beginning of the story to the end? What do you think causes the changes?
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The narrator changes a lot from the beginning to the end of “The One Who Watches.” At the beginning of the story Doris states “I was born to follow the leader…” which she did by following Yolanda everywhere. This shows when Doris follows Yolanda to New York and skips school. Also this appears when they sneak into the fashion show. Towards the end of the book Doris starts making decisions for herself, like when she runs when Yolanda steals the purse. Also Doris states “… I have to start trying to figure out who I am and where I want to go before I can help anybody else. “ this shows how Doris is trying to straighten her life out by making her own decisions. This relates to my life when some kids started a food fight then others joined in and I left the cafeteria so I didn’t get in trouble sort of like how Doris left Yolanda when she stole the purse.
Doris changes from the beginning to the end of the story in many ways. One way is that she finally decides not to hang out with Yolanda anymore because she is nothing but trouble. This shows that she has changed from a timid girl to a more independent person. Another way she changed is she becomes a leader for herself by making her own decisions and not just following Yolanda around anymore.
In the beginning of the story, Doris, the main character, always follow Yolanda around, like she's a dog and Yolanda is the master. "I was born to follow the leader, that's waht my mother says when she sees us together, and it's true". In the story, even Doris admitted that she was the 'dog', and that she was born to follow Yolanda, this action shows that Doris has low self-esteem and low self-confidence.
At the end of the story, Doris decided not to follow Yolanda around anymore, she is a dynamic character!
"I am moving back, away from the scene that starts happening really fast in front of me..."
I think the reason for these changes is that Doris noticed what Yolanda has been doing was wrong, because at the end of the book, Yolanda goes so far with her 'games' that she started to steal from stores. Doris knows that Yolanda has gone to far and that she now know that Yolanda is crazy. She realized that Yolanda is not the type for her.
The narrator in “The One Who Watches” changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, the narrator was a follower of her best friend Yolanda. They were both poor Puerto Ricans. Yolanda had very expensive taste, she would do anything for fun, and she was a risk taker. In the beginning of the story, Yolanda sneaks into a fashion show with her following friend scared of getting caught. Yolanda pretends to be a model leaving the narrator extremely frightened. “Hey you! And I nearly pass out, thinking we had gotten caught.” The narrator said. That is an example of her expensive taste and doing anything for fun. An example of being a risk taker is when Yolanda and Doris (the narrator) go to a very expensive store. Doris knew that Yolanda was not just window shopping. Doris saw the man approaching Yolanda after she stuffed the purse into her pocket. Doris ran as fast as she could home. Her mother asked if she was sick and she replied in her mind with, “Yes. I am sick. I am sick of following Yolanda in to trouble.” In conclusion, the narrator used to be a follower of her mischievous friend but at the end she did not want anything to do with her until she worked out her problems.
In the story catch the moon the dynamic main character is Doris. The story was about two girls Doris and Yolanda. Doris, the narrarator, is very shy and keeps to herself.She seemed to have a low self esteem."im not flashy like yolonda.Im practically invisible. Not Ugly, Not beautiful just a nothing (12).She never really does anything for her. She just follows Yolanda around and usually gets led into trouble. For example Yolanda thought skipping school and sneaking into a fashion would be a good idea but she ended up getting herself and dories into trouble. In the end when they went shopping and Yolanda stole the purse Doris decided that she did not want to have anything to do with the girl because she was not a good example and Doris needed to be herself.
Doris changes drastically from the beginning of the story to the end. At the start of the story, we learn that Doris was a very plain and a low self-esteem girl. "I'm practically invisible"(page 12). Doris had a friend who was almost the exact opposite. Yolanda was a risk taker, "...who is barely five feet tall, facing off with this big woman...."(page 13) But at the end of the story, Doris learns that she is the leader of herself, that no one can tell her what to do or how to act. And with that, Doris becomes independent and leaves Yolanda and her trouble-making ways. This happens because Doris sees the error in Yolanda's ways, and knows that if she stays with Yolanda, she is bound to get in big trouble."I can hear a police car siren getting louder...." So, in the end, Doris makes a smart choice and does the right thing.
In the short story “The One Who Watches” the narrator, Doris, changes from the beginning to the end of the story. One way Doris changes is that she is no longer a follower. In the beginning of the story she would follow Yolanda and do whatever Yolanda did. Doris changed this when the two girls went to a nice store and Yolanda was going to steal an expensive hand bag and Doris knew it was a bad idea so she told Yolanda not to do it and left before they got in trouble. This shows that Doris can make her own decisions and learned that it is better to stay out of trouble even if you will lose a friend for not following their bad influence. I think Doris’s change is caused from her having a similar experience from when Yolanda went in the fashion show, even though Doris didn’t do anything, both girls got in trouble. This caused Doris to question whether it’s worth having Yolanda as a friend if she is going to get her in trouble.
Doris changes from the beginning to the end by becoming stronger. In the beginning, she was weak becuase she wanted to tell Yolanda how she really felt but wasn't strong enough to. In the end, she changes by having enough strength to stand up to her and saying she has had enough. The things that have caused her to do this is Yolanda stealing the purse. That might have cuased her because Doris doesn't want to be in that kind of situation like when she was running away and she heard the sirens. Those are the things that made Doris change and why.
In the beginning Doris does what ever her best friend, Yolanda, wants here to do. In beginning of the story Yolanda and Doris are window shopping. When ever Yolanda asks Doris to look at something she does but when Doris wants Yolanda to look at something she isn’t as enthusiastic as Doris is. The two of them then break into a modeling show. Yolanda manages to get one of the dresses and put it on. While Yolanda is having fun Doris is a bit worried because she doesn’t want to get in trouble but she won’t speak to Yolanda about it. During this part of the story Doris should have said something to Yolanda but she doesn’t want to end their relationship. Finally someone realizes that neither Yolanda nor Doris is in the modeling show. They get kicked out and get a warning not to come back. Later that day they go to a different store and Yolanda gets caught stealing a purse. When Yolanda gets caught Doris notices something. She notices that she should think for herself because if she doesn’t Yolanda will lead her into trouble.
In the book “the one who watches” Doris changes from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning she is a follower, it even says so in the book.”I was born to follow the leader.” That’s what Doris says because she is always following around Yolanda and never takes her own actions. Throughout the story they get into trouble, they get yelled at by the store owners and get kicked out of everywhere and Yolanda always says that they have been kicked out of better places. Doris soon starts to notice that one of these times they are going to get in some serious trouble. She makes her final decision to stop being a follower when she catches Yolanda steeling and she runs away so she doesn’t get in trouble. She made her own decision to be the leader there. This is how Doris changes from the beginning to the end of the story; she went from a follower to a leader.
At the beginning of the story the main character Doris underestimates her and also hangs around bad people. For example Yolanda, her friend, who steals and is always getting herself in trouble by either walking down the runway pretending to be a model or stealing a bag she really likes and dumping it into her coat pocket, Doris is always there. Doris claims she’s invisible and if Yolanda finds out that doris is scared of what trouble Yolanda gets herself into then, she stop being friends with Doris. She won't say anything to Yolanda because Yolanda’s last best friend who is now her ex best friend wouldn’t skip school and Yolanda just stopped talking to her because she wouldn’t follow her orders. A quote from the story that proves this is, “If Yolanda knew how scared I really am she’d leave me anyways.” As the story goes on you can tell Doris builds up her courage and starts to believe she can go her own way instead of following Yolanda around. There comes a part at the end of the story when the table turns. Doris shows up at Yolanda’s apartment and sees her wearing a big green raincoat on a nice beautiful day; she then says that she saw this bag that she really wanted. When they get to the store Yolanda offers Doris candy while snatching the purse and putting it in her big green rain jacket. After this Doris realizes that she’s done with Yolanda and will not hang around her she continues to say, “Yes. I am sick. I am sick of following Yolanda into trouble…but I have to start figuring out who I am and where I want to go before I can help anyone else.”
The narrator,Doris, of The One Who Watches changes from the begining to the end because in the begining, Doris said that she was invisible and followed Yolanda and didnt say anything to disagree with her. for example, when Doris followed yolanda to New York and skipped school, that told us that Doris can't make decisions for herself. At the end, when yolanda steals the bag and puts it in her jacket, Doris finally realzied that this isnt right and she doesnt want to hang around Yolanda any more becuase yolanda is a trouble maker, and doris ran home from the store.
In "The One Who Watches" the main character Doris changes in the beginning to the end of the story in many ways. For example, at the beginning she follows Yolanda around every where and does what she does. For example in the story Doris says, “I was born to follow the leader…” Then at the end of the story she decides she has had enough of Yolanda and stops being friends with her. Also, she changes when she leaves Yolanda at the store when Yolanda shop lifts. At the begging she would has just stayed with Yolanda. This is how Doris changes from the beginning to the end of the story.
The main character of the story is Doris. Doris followed Yolanda everywhere she went. Doris never put herself first, she looked up to Yolanda. The title says it all, "The one who watches". Doris is the one who watches Yolanda. Yolanda is the leader, Doris just tags along. At the end of the story Doris does a dramatic change. She decides she needed to be a leader for herself. "I am sick of following Yolanda into trouble" says Doris. "I have to start trying to figure out who I am and where I want to go before I can help anybody else" Doris was tired of being scared and feeling sick knowing that Yolanda was stealing. When Yolanda was stealing the pocketbook, Doris ran out of the store feeling her heart pounding on her chest. Yolanda and Doris are no longer friends. These are some examples of how Doris changed from beginning to the end.
The narrator of “The One Who Watches” change from the beginning of the story to the end by being on that cares to be near her friend to thinking that it is wrong. In the beginning her words are those that will follow a leader no matter what happens. Like when they went into the dressing room for the models. She says she loves this girl. Nearing the end, Doris, the narrator, starts to think in the opposite direction. She says she is starting to feel sick and that is all because of Yolanda and her stealing. What I think causes the changes are when Yolanda wants to go eye shopping and indicates that maybe she wants something really badly to actually steal it. So it would be that Doris has finally had enough.
The narrator changes from the beginning to the end of the story in many ways. The most important being that Doris at the beginning of the book she says "i was born to follow the leader..." which means in her eyes she isnt meant to make choices. But in the end of the storry Doris realizes that she doesn't want to follow Yolanda around anymore and wants to be her own person and not get into trouble all the time, like she did with Yolanda. She decides she wants to live her life and be the leader of herself and what she does she quotes at the end "I have to start trying to figure out who I am and where I want to go before I can help anybody else."
I think the reason that she does change is because she realizes that what Yolanda does isnt what she whants to do with her life.
In the story, "The One Who Watches", Dorris changes in many ways. One way is she learns to stop being a follower and stop beng Yolandas "sidekick". She also learns to start making decisions for herself as opposed to hanging around somebody who gets in trouble alot. She even shows it when she says "...she needs to find out who she is..." This shows that she has matured in the sense that she is going to start being more independent and start making more decisions for herself.
The narrator changes quite a lot from the beginning to the end. At the beginning of the story, Doris always follwed Yolanda around. Doris also says " I was born to follow the leader" which she accomplished by following Yolanda around. She is alawys getting in trouble. For example, whenever Yolanda skips school, Doris does the same thing. They also sneak out to a fashion show and know that that is something that is not in their budget like the clothes and acessories. In the story, Doris also fears to tell Yolanda that she should stop whatever she's doing but doesn't have the strength to. But then at the end of the story, she stands up for herself. one example is when Yolanda is looking at a purse in a store and knws she cant afford it. Then she attempts to steal it and does and that's when Doris runs away. That is one example of Doris standing up for herself. Doris says that " I ahve to sart figuring out who I am and who I am and where I want to go before I can help anyone else. This statement shows that Doris is finally going to concentrate on her own life and not someone's else. I can relate to this story. When there was going to be a big fight between 2 boys, and a lot of people heard about it, so when the fight started, I left and didn't get in trouble just like Doris left when Yolanda stole the purse.
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