Piece of Cake week 4 post #1

" I sat in the chair with my head down and began to cry. I was so disheartened. For the first time sience going to the hospital, I felt...hopeless. I quickly wiped away the tears, not wanting anyone to think I was a punk or weak. I stared at the floor, wondering when would be the right moment to get up and leave. I wouldn't be coming back to the Southeast Alano Club. In fact, I wasn't going back to any meetings." Page 355

This quote is put more towards the end of the book but it is very important because it tells us about how hard Cupcake was trying to become clean from her use of drugs. Yet no matter how hard she tryed she still felt like a falure and just giving up. I feel like Cupcake also put this in the book because it is something that everyone can really relate to because at some point in everyones life they feel like no matter what they do they will never be perfect or be able to accomplish every thing they want to. Once in a while you will always just want to give up when really the best thing to do is to keep going.

Pice of Cake week three part one

When the begining of this section starts Cupcake is sixteen years old. She had found an apartment to live in and loves living alone, she dosent feel threatend or scared and she also likes not having to run away all of the time.In order for her to live alone until the emancipation settles Cupcake must have a job and attend her school. So, Cupcake had to go out and get an actual job and she got hired as being a alarm monitor. It was a pretty easy job for her, she'd come to work after school drunk and high and then fall asleep on the job and would wake up in the morning to go to school. The day that Cupcake was legally emancipated she quit school but decided it would be best to stay with her job. Cupcake became close friends with her next-door neighbor named Rich. Rich was twenty five years old and was a drug dealer. Cupcake and Rich would smoke together on a regular basis. Cupcake awoke one morning with a very sharp pain in her abdomen, Rich called the ambulance and she went to the hospital. The doctors told her that an IUD (a form of birthcontroll) was left in too long and moved into her uterus, the doctor also informed her that she had gonorrhea, which is a sexually transmitted disease. Rich found out he was moving because he was in the amy and he asked Cupcake if she wanted to take over his business of dealing drugs and his customers. Cupcake decided it would be good to get that money and she could then quit her job. Cupcake loved selling weed for a few reasons. She liked it because her house became the place everyone wanted to be and she always had cash on her. When the people came to partys the would automatically go to her because they knew that she would have drugs with her. Besides weed Cupcake started selling other drugs such as meth, cocaine LSD and sherm. On her seventeenth birthday Cupcake threw herself a huge party. It got out of hand and as usual the police showed up and busted the party. Cupcake mouthed off and started swearing at the cops and was almost taken to jail for underage drinking. After the party Cupcake and her friends had the munchies from smokeing so much pot so one of her friends went to the store to buy chicken for them. When they started to cook the chicken they had bought, Cupcake felt sick from the smell. She right then knew she was pregnant because this is how she felt last time she was pregnant. Cupcake went to the free clinic to get tested to make sure she was pregnate and she was. She called Calvin the man she figured was the father and made him give her money for an abortion. After her first I guess she figured she couldent raise a baby and it would be easyer to get an abortion. Cupcake stopped selling drugs and sence she quit her job and had no money left she went back to live with her dad.

Pice of Cake Week 3 part 2

dear journal,

The book A Pice of Cake is the sadest memoir I have read. Its about a girl , Cupcake,whos mother dies when she is only 12 years old and finds out that the man she has considerd her dad her whole life isent her biological father. She is then put into foster care. She has a brother but they hate eachother. Every thing from then has gone down hill. She runs away and gets into drugs and alcohol. Almost instantly she is addiceted. To pay for these addictions she begins selling herself. She then gets pregnate and then is returned to her foster home from which she ran away from. She is so excited to have her baby because she feels like it will be someone to love her. Then for no reason at all her foster mother decideds to have some of her other foster children come and beat her up killing the baby. So once agian Cupcake runs away and joins a gang. She ended up getting shot luckily she was able to walk agian. Some times I think my life could not get any harder or stress full then it is but then I think of this book and nothing compares. She has no one and I have a family right by my side. I predict that before things get any better they will get worse but I know she has the power to pull out of all of this once she decides that she wants to.

Piece of Cake Week 2 # 3

I think that this whole section of the book is very disturbing. First of all I dont believe it is right to be doing drugs and drinking at such a young age. Secondly the fact that she had gotten pregnate knowing that she would never be able to rase a child is wrong even though I understand that it is not all her fault because she dident really know what she was doing and it was unexpected but still just dont have sex untill your married, simple as that. And thirdly I think it is horible that Diane went and had Cupcake attacked by the other girls when she knew that Cupcake was excited to have the baby and the only reason she did it is because she is selfish and dident want to have to pay for the baby. I personally hope to God she gos to hell for that it just makes me sick to my stomach to think about it.

Piece of Cake Week 2 # 1

During section two of this book much of what was going on in section one is going on still. Cupcake is more into her drugs then ever she is even finding out about new ones that shes likeing more. And to wash down all of the drugs she is continuoulsy drinking aswell. During this part of the book she also got pregnate at one point but had a miscarage because her stepmother Diane had some of her other foster children come and beat her untill her baby was killed. She then runs away agian but this time she gos to Hollywood California and joins a gang where she seems to be happy for now but sence were talking about Cupcake its probley for all of the wrong reasons.

Piece of Cake Week 2 # 2

sadness (page 53) This word is commenly used to show expression. When you think of sadness you think of a gray gloomy day where you just want to be all alone and curl up in your bed and go to sleep and not wake up untill the sun has come up agin.

chugged (page 63)When you drink something really fast almost in one gulp. In this book they were talking about chugging beer so that you can get even more drunk then you think you are because it is not hitting you at differnt times it comes to you all at once.

ranting (page 71) When two or more people are going on and on yelling and fighting about some thing they are ranting. When people are ranting they usually are not using nice words and are puting eachother down to make them selfvs feel better.

prostitution(page 78): This word represents selling your body for money. It is a unhealthy thing to do but for the less fortunate it may seem as there only way to survive or make any money to feed there familys if they have one.

abortion (page 84) When a person choses to have there baby killed for some reason such as not wanting there family and friends to know or they are just not financally or emotionaly ready to have and raise a child.

juvie (page 96) For most people when you hear the word juvie you think of a place where a bunch of kids under the age of 18 go if they are in trubble with the law witch is correct but a juvie is also a name given to the kid sent to the juvinial dilinquent center.

gang(page 106): The word gang symbolizes violence. Violence is clearly bad and never represented in a good way . Violence can cause hurt emotionaly or physicaly. Some people are in gangs because they think it is cool or they just think its a place where they belong, some people are afraid of them. The word can effect people differntly.

hatred (page 106) This word is used because it gives off a sense of meaness and can have different words used in its place. It's feeling is again harsh. The author used this word because she wanted to show how much hate she had towards another person


nigga(page 113): This word is very harmful and shouldnt be said. It is a very racist word and is super offensive to people of color. It is usally only accepted when blacks are talking to blacks and if a white person were to use the word it is automatically taken to offence.

bangers (page 124)This word has many different feelings that go along with it. Some feelings towards bangers would be scary, family, tight. The author used this word because her gang used slang which alot of is used in her vocabulary through out the book.

2nd Quarter out side reading

1) The book I am reading for second quarter is Gossip Girls Don't You Forget About Me. Written by Cecily Von Ziegesar.
2) This book was first published was in May 2007.
3) This is a fictional book.
4) This book is 275 pages long
5) Well basically on the back of the book cover it states " ages 15 and up" and yes I am 15 :)
6) I chose this book because it was written for teens and it seems to have more topics in it that I can relate to then in most books.