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So the mother, Barb has finally came to her sences and is getting a divorce with Dave.  She finally is letting him go and is not seeing him anymore.  This is finally the smartest thing that she has done lately.  It seems like Barb has learned her lesson about this and she knows what is more important for her children and not just herself.  She wants to make her life more healthier and wants to live a peaceful life.  She even has went to a doctor and has gotten antianxiety pills for her.  This is a big step and I can tell she has improved hugely.  She has gotten a new apartment and has invited Janice back in to live with her and Jake.  On the other hand, Janice I think is ruinning her chance of bein with her family and is going to end up on the streets or  in a shelter again.  She finally got what she wanted and she is back home and her mother is not with Dave anymore and she is still out of control.  I think she is bein the selfish one now and is just doing what she wants to do.  Even when she was smoking PCP with Dougie P. her girl friends came in and they were shocked at what she was doing like they did not approve of it either.  She also had sex when she was messed up on it and she barely knew what was going on.  That is a good way to get pregnant and that will just be another difficult step for her in her life.  She needs to slow down and start thinkin about her mother and Jake and live healthy and peacefully like her mom and appreciate she is back home instead of at the shelter.

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Is Janice worthy of praise or critisism?  I think it could really go either way.  She could be praised for getting out of the abusive house and trying to find a new way to live her life.  A plus is that she is still going to school.  I mean she has not dropped out yet.  She is skipping class although and going and doing drugs.  She has not gotten in trouble either at the shelters and has not been punished by going to treatment which is good. She is getting along with the girls and she is doing what she is supposed to be doing.  She comes to the shelter on time every night and Janice has a job and she goes to her job every time.  Dolores does praise her in a way and when she comes back from her job and gives her money to them for them to hold and Dolores even says why can't the girls be more like you.  On the other hand, she does need some cristism because she seem like she gets worse and worse with the drugs.  She is having sex and trying to find love and to lure boys in so that then she can get married and live with them.  She is having sex with her friend's boyfriend and not caring about other people's feelings.  Another main person in the story would be her mom, Barb.  She is a character that would deserver critism.  She takes back Dave everytime it seems like he is more important than her own kids.  She then wants to have Janice come live with them and has a chance to go see her in her play and doesnt act like a mom that she should be and does not go and see her daughter perform.  She doesnt even call back when she is supposed to.  We will see if she will ever be worthy of any praise.

Girl Bomb

I think this story is very powerful and full of events.  I don't see her not having anyother family members than just her mom and her dad who is not there.  What about a grandparent or close friend of her mother's.  I don't see why her mom can't let Dave go.  She tries to say to the councelor at the second shelter that Janice is the one with the problem and she is not.  I think the mom really is the one with the problem because she lets Dave take over her life and try to tell her what to do and then has a baby with her.  He always tries to find a way back into Barb's life and even though he knows he is ruining her relationship with Janice he does not care because he is the one who wants to be in her life instead of her daughter and so does Barb it seems like.  She wants Dave more then her own daughter.  She is letting Janice go around and smoke pot and such things and not paying much attention to her and I think if Dave was not in the picture then Janice would never have gotten into any of these problems.