Remembering Summer Days

The first paragraph of "Innocence is Bliss" was well written in that she uses a present day to bring up a memory, and that it was something as simple as a song that brought back all those memories; I can relate to that because most songs I always make an association with every song, so each one reminds me of a different memory. Her depiction of her middle school days were accurate I thought, making me rememmber the "auctions", home ec class, and 8th grade graduation. Many parts of the essay like when she says Colin wanted to wave at her, but it was uncool to wave so he didn't; she waved anyway and her friends giggled and about trying to wear all the latest clothes to try to be "popular" fit very well the personna of being in middle school, or freshly out of because middle schoolers are loud, and silly, and immature and Innocent! Then, as she says "people begin to dread the familiar feeling of heading back to school" and it is then realized that summer as just a weird little kid is over, because now you're in high school and that forces you to grow up a bit.