i looked at little maria in the back corner in my classroom i think she must have used an entire khanna of gwyneth hair spray. her bangs were out to here, she had dark lipstick and dark makeup to disguise a black eye she had received days earlier when she was released from the juvenile hall. when i gave her her journal to tell her story at that point she didn't think she had a story. she thought my store has already been told in the back of my mother or my grandmother or everyone else in my community. so the first two weeks little maria and her journal wrote i hate erin gruwell and fiber is not on probation i would probably shake her. every day i would pick up the journal eagerly awaiting to see her story and read about how much she hated me. alas, when i asked her to tell me about her journey in the same term that odysseus had an odyssey and he went from point a to b she named him a homey and had to told me she had to go to point a to b to get back to his home boys safe and sound in the same way she did. so i asked her to elaborate on this great many of you have as well. maria told me