Personality

I think that it would be a lot easier to act like somebody else if you needed friends, but you wouldn't be true to yourself. If you acted like yourself, you might be a total outcast for a while, but your not giving in to peer pressure. Melinda in the book is being true to herself by not acting like the marthas or foreign exchange students just to fit in. Heather on the other hand isn't acting like herself because she is going to join the Marthas just so she has some friend. It really just depend who you are when it comes to this sentence. If you want to have friends, sometimes you have to act like other people. But if you just want to go through high school without friends, then you can still act like yourself. However some people can still act like there selfs and still have friends. It all depends on your personality. Personally for me, i dont think you should be something your not and i think melinda is doing a good job of it.