1-pick a topic from beg. of book

In Emily White's, High School's Secret Life, Emily sits in at Calhoun high school cafeteria trying to observe and analyze the actions of students.  She focuses on the fact that most students and confined to one or two tables during lunch because of the high school social cliques.  The fact that she is so concerned with students being stuck at their table leads me to think that in high school Emily White was not in the popular clique and she possibly disliked going to lunch for these same reasons.  She talks about students can get different lunches then their friends and how this can be devastating to a student.  Her example talks about one girl who found herself in this situation, who started feeling like a loser because her friends did not have lunch with her.  In my high school we had four different lunches and no matter which lunch someone has, they would usually have a friend to sit with.  My high school was very big and diverse, so even when you have no friends to sit with you can make new friends at a new table.  This is an action that Emily White would find terrifying.  She talks about how a small number of messengers go from table to table and show that connections between tables can be formed.  In my high school not only could you talk to and sit with people at surrounding tables but you could also go to the library with your food and a friend to study during lunch.  Lunch opportunities at Calhoun high school are very different from my high school and Emily White's story might be different if she sat in to observe lunch at Framingham High.