Write an essay stating your opinion on whether it’s better to dream big or to
be realistic.

it's better to dream realistic

Explanation:

dreaming big makes one to think of things that at some point may be beyond their capacity but dreaming realistically makes one to think of things they can attain

she swerves to avoid the turtle.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.