Author's Note:
This is my cause and effect essay for the book Accidental Cheerleader by Mimi McCoy.
Two friends; one is now a perky faced, short skirted, pony tail cheerleader; the other is a mascot with a mule head. In the book, Accidental Cheerleader, by Mimi McCoy, Kylie and Sophie are forced to put their friendship to the test when Sophie tumbles her way to cheering, while Kylie spirits her way to the school mascot. These ongoing disagreements nearly separated the two friends forever.
In Accidental Cheerleader, Kylie couldn't wait to put on her uniform to start cheering, but while Sophie, her best friend, became a cheerleader, Kylie was assigned the school mascot, a mule. Kylie's strong jealousy towards Sophie caused her to begin insulting Sophie's uniform, the other cheerers (Sophie's new friends), and the two almost stopped talking to each other altogether. Through this fight, their other friend, Joel Leo, began to become closer and closer to Kylie after Sophie began to ditch her former friends for practices. When Kylie discovered Sophie had a secret crush on Joel, she started spending even more time with him. These events were strong contributors to Sophie and Kylie's fight that almost wrecked their friendship.
The constant bickering and mudslinging had a huge effect on the two's relationship. A positive effect was each got to spend some time with other kids at their school who were interested in similar hobbies, but Kylie and Sophie realized they liked having each other around because they supplemented each other. A negative effect occurred because since the two nearly stopped talking to each other, they almost didn't have a chance to make up. Because the two were friends their entire lives they didn't let these minor disagreements get between them and eventually made up. Lastly, if neither, or both, of the girls made the cheer team I believe that they never would have had an argument and would still be just as close through the whole story.
Initially, after the fight, it seemed as though the two would never be friends again, but like in The Boy Next Door, they did. The story The Boy Next Door also describes two friends that fought and were nearly separated, but made up towards the end of the novel. It described several short bickering scenes and told of how the two friends just didn't have anything left in common and stopped hanging out. Like in Accidental Cheerleader they did in the end and lived happily ever after.
The short period of constant separation and bickering with each other nearly led Kylie and Sophie to end their friendship. Because of their strong history and similarities in life, they eventually made up and were closer than ever. If they had never tried out for cheerleading their fight never would have happened, thus preventing the arguing and creating a very boring story. Overall, I found that Accidental Cheerleader was a perfect of example of what can happen when disagreement breaks out between friends.
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