My First Time, Twice. Is a story about a young fourteen year-old girl who was on a mission to lose her virginity, but actually ended up finding her true self.
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I would say that this story is an issue/idea feature, because this topic happens on a regular basis but is not usually reported on.
Ariel was always surrounded by older people, who constantly complemented her on how mature she was. Her peers at school thought the exact opposite though, to them, she was considered a nerd. She was on a mission to lose her virginity, she had already tried drugs and alcohol so she felt it was the next step. She resolves her conflict by having someone take her virginity at the age of fifteen, but she than lost it again at seventeen. To Ariel, the first time was not losing her virginity, because it was awkward, but the second time it was "different".
The larger human theme to this story is self-discovery. After she lost her virginity she realized that she was only reaching out to have sex because her parents were going through a divorce and she wanted to rebel against them.
"The thing I badly wanted wasn't sex but to be rid of my virginity, the last vestige of a childhood spent trusting and respecting adults, seeking their approval"-Ariel Levy.
This story is told in the first person narrative. It works extremely well because it is the authors story of self-discovery.
The authors point of view is that she has learned from her out breaks as a child because now that she is older she can look at the situation and now understand it, but even better, write about it. The authors voice is character development.
This story made me feel curious because of the title. Than after reading the story I felt remorse for the girl because she did not know what she wanted, even though she thought she did at the time. I do not have any questions because this article was very well written and she provides all of the background flaws and she makes her characters relate to the story.
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