Karina Rayo

October 31, 2015

Professor Lennon

English 6A

Frankie’s Character Traits

            Every single person has their own type of personality, which makes their character traits shine out. A character trait can tell who you really are and how you act. Many times a person can have various types of character traits. However, there is always one that shines out the most. For instance, in the memoir, “The Mee Street Chronicles,” the author/narrator shows who and how she really is through her character traits. Throughout the selections, she showed that she was curious, imaginative, initiative, opinionated, etc. However, Frankie’s strongest character trait was that she was brave.

            In the selection, “No Escape,” Frankie talks about a terrifying incident she had when she was young. She was trapped in her house late at night all alone. Through her imagination, she created dark and light figures that created tension. She saw darkness all throughout her house, but she still did not stop until she was able to get out of her house to go find someone that could help her. She talked about an evil voice describing all the horrendous things that could be lurking in the darkness. She stated, “Although the scared part of me tells me not to go, I make myself ignore it and take the first step in that direction.”(20). She was fearful but she was brave enough to go through all the scary things to get out.

            Braveness is not always about continuing to fight through scary things. It could also be about having courage. In the selection, “Adversaries,” Frankie is stuck with her auntie because her parents go away to for a trip. Throughout this selection and in other selections she talks about how scary and strict her auntie is. Her auntie was an old fashioned strict religious woman that needed everything to go her way. Frankie dreaded having her auntie babysit her, so on one occasion she decided to go out and play. She lost track of time and her auntie went crazy looking for her. When she got back Frankie was in big trouble. Her auntie was ready to give her a whooping and Frankie was waiting for it. At the same time, her auntie was saying bad things about Frankie’s parents, her father specifically. Frankie was not going to let that happen and she held on to her courage and stood up to her scary auntie for her father. Only her braveness could make her do it.

            Through these stories the narrator showed who and how she really is. Frankie had a lot of strong traits; however, she was mostly brave and it was what shined the most. She was brave to never stop when she was scared and to even stand up for the people she loves.  In, “The Mee Street Chronicles,” through all her problems Frankie never took a step back. She always charged the problems with her courage.