![]() She seeks it out as a place where she can belong and have an identity without worrying about people teasing her for being poor or dirty or criticizing her parents. In seventh grade Jeannette is the first person her age to work for the school newspaper, The Maroon Wave. I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on. What the reporter wrote influenced what people thought about and talked about the next day he knew what was really going on. ![]() But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. ![]() Until then, when I thought of writers, what first came to mind was Mom, hunched over her typewriter, clattering away on her novels and plays and philosophies of life and occasionally receiving a personalized rejection letter. ![]()
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