Always Think Before You Act

Sinopsis:

Days after the sycamore tree was cut down, Juli's father made her a painting of the tree. So, when Juli could look at the painting without crying she "wondered if she still feelt the same thing about Bryce." On the other hand, while Bryce was at the garage of Skyler Brown with the Baker brothers, they showed him how a boa constictor swallowed an egg withought chewing. And "then the real nightmare began."Juli Baker started to bring eggs to Bryce because her chickens were laying eggs. The same chickens that she hatched for her science proyect, and of course she "dominated" the fifth grade science fair. Bryce was annoyed because of this. Anyway, Bryce ends up accepting the eggs, when he showed them to his mom she was happy to receive them, but when Bryce told her they were from Juli Baker her smile faded because she thought that if she opened one a dead chicken would fall. The Loski's argued for a good amount time because they wanted to know if the eggs were safe. So Bryce ask his friend Garret for help. Both of them ended spying over the Baker's backyard fence. Bryce got to see their backyard and he thought it was a complete mess. At dinner the Loski's  wondered if because of the mess at the backyard of the Baker's, the eggs could have salmonella. However, Juli brought eggs to Bryce for the next two years and he NEVER told her the truth... Until one morning after accepting the eggs, Bryce wanted to throw them away but the trash was full. So, he placed the carton on top of it and went to throw it away, but guess who did he found "thinking" on his porch, JULI. Sooner or later the lie is discovered, in this case not in a good way. Juli saw her eggs in the trash Bryce was holding. Finally Bryce told the truth to Juli, he told her that they were afraid of salmonella and Juli told him that other people like Mrs. Steuby were buying her eggs. On another point of view Juli's teacher gave her eight fertile eggs that she could hatch for the science fair but she wasn't anxious about this. At last she came up with charts and diagrams for her proyect and she got to keep the eggs. Time passed and her chickens laid eggs, people bought them and she would bring them to the Loski's, until she knew about the lie. Juli was heartbroken.

Quotes:

"The way she ignored me or so obiously avoided me was a screaming loud reminder to me that I'd been a jerk. A royal cluck-faced jerk."

Now the one that feels avoided and excluded is Bryce. I can say that he feels regret and wished that he wouldn't have done what he did. In my opinion people never appreciate something until they loose it. In this case Juli wanted to be his friend or maybe more than his friend, but he didn't, and when she is boiling mad and disappointed at him he is begining to value her friendship.

"My grandfather had already said more to her in this little slice of time than he'd said to me the whole year and a half he'd been living with us. What was his deal with Juli Baker?"

Bryce is definetely jealous. Why would he notice someone just like that? I think that the grandfather of Bryce thought that Juli was very special. Because not all girls appear in the newspaper because of a tree, not all girls know how to appreciate the beauty of life, not all girls make a person feel more alive, that is what Juli Baker did.

Final Thoughts:

So, in the next forty-two pages what happened was that Juli's father made her a painting of the sycamore tree she loved. Juli's chickens laid eggs and people bought them $2 the dozen, these chickens were the ones that Juli hatched for the science fair. Juli gave eggs to the Loski's for over two years, they didn't want them but they didn't say soto her. Eventually Bryce end up telling the truth to Juli and she leaves heartbroken. My prediction was right! Juli ended avoiding Bryce. Further in the book what might happen is that Bryce gets to know Juli a little more and falls in love with her.