The Testing

 I only just began The Testing for a group called Battle of the Books. The story starts out in the main character's graduation day, in her home, as she's getting ready. Her name is Cia and she's sixteen. She's putting on a red dress to resemble her step into adulthood rather than the pink clothes she would usually wear. "Red. I'm wearing red. No more pink. I am an adult." She is graduating from whatever education she had, they don't really explain that, and has to make a really good impression because only a very few get to go to the testing. Only one person gets chosen into adulthood and not have to continue working or studying. Before she actually goes into the testing she hangs around with her friend Daileen. She is a very close friend to Cia and is the only person Cia talks to when it comes to things like fears of the future. Because she is kind of afraid they go to get ice cream and because they're in a hurry, so not to be late to the testing, they run to the ice cream. By the time they get back from getting and eating ice cream, Cia's hair is a mess and causes trouble to be re-combed. Cia doesn't live with a very rich family. Her home is a far distance from the center of their district which means it costs less. This also means they need to leave their house early to get to the center in time. That is as all I read in the book The Testing.

 Now, I didn't read much of The Testing but I did notice some sort of connection from the book to real life. Me being an eighth grader, I am about to graduate from Middle School and go into High School like Cia graduating whatever it is she is graduating from and going into adulthood. Students going into High School are expected to act more mature and expected to be somewhat prepared to deal with whatever the change throws at them but most of the time the students are still immature and afraid. Of course over time they will get used to it but at first they will be childish and afraid of the change. Like with Cia, she was nervous but acted as if she wasn't. People expected her to just suddenly adjust to adulthood immediately after her graduation. All she accomplished so far was running around, eating ice cream with her friend, and talking about how afraid she was.