1. Identity, Balance, Resilience and Movement. ~The Friday Everything Changed~

2. Identity Identity has a lot to do with this story. The girls never seem to get a break. They never get the good magazines or never get to carry the water. Its a common stereotype that girls are basically “things”. Its almost as if they have no identity. They are just the girls.

3. Balance There isn't much balance in Miss Ralston's class. The boys always seem to get the better half of things like carrying the water. Whereas the girls never get to do much. There's also another form of balance. When Ms Ralston goes outside to play baseball with the students, everybody thinks that she wont be very good. She ends up proving everyone wrong by hitting the ball into the ox pasture (which maybe happened once a year) that tells us that she has a masculine and feminine side to herself.

4. Resilience After Alma asks Miss Ralston “why can’t girls carry the water too?” the boy immediately reacted. They had something of theirs and it was being threatened to be taken away from them. So they of course bullied and beat up Alma. But all the girls stayed together and protected each other.

5. Movement Movement is one of the biggest parts of the story. After all the bullying, the girls finally get what they want! After the baseball game Ms Ralston tells the girls that they can carry the water. Another type of movement was when Alma asked if girls could carry the water too and that triggered the bullying from the boys and that was the beginning of the movement to just the boys carrying water to the fight for the girls right to carry the water too.