My 21st Century Twist On Charlotte Temple

Here is a plot summary of Charlotte Temple and how I would rewrite it today.
Charlotte and Rebecca are best friends that go to Ursuline College in Pepper Pike Ohio. They decided to go to a party at John Carrol where they met two guys named Derek and Ryan. Derek and Ryan were in the National Guard and were based in Texas. They were talking and drinking and Derek was really into Rebecca and Ryan was really into Charlotte. They seemed to really like each other and after a couple of dates they got the crazy idea to move to Texas to live with the boys. They told their parents of their plan and they were not happy at all. They actually said they would disown them if they moved and dropped out of College. They did it anyway because both of the girls were promised marriage and a happy life in Texas. On the plane ride back to Texas Rebecca met a different guy name Dave and Derek and Rebecca were no longer planning on being with each other. Once they arrived in Texas Rebecca went to California to be with Dave. Charlotte and Ryan appeared happy but weeks went by when Ryan would never come home and wold never even text her. In the meantime, Derek came swooping in and started hanging out with Charlotte. Charlotte decide to write Ryan a mean facebook message about why he was ignoring her. What had happened was Ryan had met up with an ex-girlfriend and was wanting to go back with her. This upset Charlotte a lot but Derek was really nice and seemed really perfect. After a few months Derek was doing the same thing to her. Not texting much or hanging out much with her so she confronted him. They decided to end their relationship too. Charlotte was so upset because she was in Texas, with no one. Not a boyfriend, or her best friend. A few months went by and Charlotte realized she was pregnant. She didn’t know whose baby it was though. Both of the guys denied it and wouldn’t help her at all. She decided to text Rebecca and asked her to go home to Ohio with her and Rebecca, like the best friend she was went with her and luckily her mom was just thankful she decided to come home and was going to help with the baby.

I have contemplated many endings and I haven’t decided on one yet. My original plan was to kill both of the guys but decided against it.

Charlotte Temple-End

Many of the incidents that happened in the book were shocking to me. I will focus on one main issue that was involving Charlotte, Belcour and Montraville. When Montraville decided he wanted to pursue his own happiness rather than keep Charlotte around, I kind of respected that. Although, He was the one to pursue Charlotte, to seduce her, and take her away from her family, I respect that he was trying to focus on his own happiness. As a bitter girl, I would have thought of him as a, let's just say, not a very nice guy but I also feel that in all relationships puting your own happiness first is important. As a girl, I would not want a guy with me that didn't want to be. The one thing that i didn't like was that even though he knew she was about to have a baby, he still left. He should have just married Julia and stayed nearby so he could care for his child. Even though it didn't ever get to Charlotte I respected the fact that he wrote her a letter and gave her money.

I found myself very agitated at Belcour for lieing to both Charlotte and Montraville about their feelings towards each other. When he was waiting for Montraville to get home to hop in Charlottes bed so it looked like she was cheating shocked me. Belcour was not a very nice friend to either Charlotte or Montraville. I guess I just can't think of why he was doing that to both of them. It appeared he was just Evil!

Essay Ideas

Some of the major factors that cause adults to fear teenagers or adolescents is because of the way they behave, dress, puberty and the other transformations that they are going through in this stage of their life. It scares adults because they for some reason do not know how to deal with this when it happens. So for my essay I was thinking about focusing on the reasons teenagers act the way they do. For instance what cause teenage delinquency, what causes them to do drugs and alcohol, want to commit suicide or other psychological problems such as eating disorders. I want to focus on the why and the what. Why is this happening and what is causing these problems among teenagers. I can find many of these solutions in the media and how many novels portray negative schooling experiences among adolescents. Many of these problems I can remember from my middle school days. I could always see what was happening and why. I am also majoring in middle childhood education so this topic interests me and I can see it happening in the schools. In focusing with the novels we read, I will be able to see how it is portrayed by each author. Many novels that portray adolescents have many issues with peer pressure which can be the root cause to all kinds of actions that teenagers engage in these days. I also see the media as a big issue with these problems as well.

One thing that I found truly interesting was in chapter ten "Dancing Daughters" was dating in the nineteenth century. Dating was a new "fad" for young people at that time. The book stated that they dating consisted of teens going out to dinner and a movie with another teen and then the next night going out with a different person. This is definitely not how the term dating is considered now. Now, during the twentieth century, dating someone means being exclusive to only that person. If a teenager was to be "dating" a few people at a time, it is considered to be trashy and wrong. It also talked about dances, where the boys would take the prettiest girls and you know you picked right if a boy would ask to cut-in while you were dancing. These days, one boy and one girl would go together and most likely only dance with their date. That is, unless a friend cuts-in.
One other thing I found interesting about this similar topic was the fact that it was a "fad." Another fad was once the automobile was invented, teens were all driving cars. This strikes me as interesting because when I was younger we had different fads. Our fads consisted of new hairstyles, new clothing styles, who had a tamogatchi, or a gigapet. Who owned pogs, or collected pokemon cards. No fad like this was mentioned during other adolescent years. Their interest was going to school or finding a job to support their family. Our youth today has become so frivolous.