Accidental Love Book Summary

In Gary Soto's book, Accidental Love, Alicia is Marisa's best friend. Alicia ends up in the hospital when her boyfriend at the time, Roberto, crashed his car with her in the passenger seat. She had just found out his cheating lies during their relationship and was left heart broken. Marisa meets a boy named Rene when Roberto brings him with when he goes to visit Alicia in the hospital. In seeing Roberto there, Marisa automatically gets in a fight with him. Among the scuffle, Marisa and Rene get their phones mixed up. They meet up to exchange phones and begin to build a relationship. As time passed and they grew to know each other better, Marisa transferred to Rene's school. Beginning a whole new life, Marisa falls for Rene and they begin dating. Rene's mother, though, is not too found of this idea and she does what she can to break them up. Finally, she wins by finding out information about Marisa that ends up getting her sent her back to her old school. Once Rene finds out, he decided to leave his mom behind and move in with his dad who accepts his choices and lets him transfer with Marisa. Although there is more the Marisa and Rene's story, you will only find out by opening the cover of Accidental Love. 

 Accidental Love is a fantastic read. The story is easy to follow as it flows just right, giving you enough suspension to keep reading. Personally, my favorite genre to read is romance. If this is just like you, then I really recommend reading this book. Among the love story, there is heartache, troubling situations, and hardships. You see the main character, Marisa, overcome a lot to get to where she is in the end of the book. Every chapter kept me wanting to read more. Although some parts were longer and read slower with less interest, the majority of the book was captivating nonetheless. I was definitely glad I found this book and I want to look into other books written by Gary Soto. 

Argument #3

Claim:  Focusing gym classes on physical fitness and good health is a better solution than eliminating all junk food from schools.

Evidence:  A school district in Naperville, Illinois, that focused gym classes on teaching students physical fitness, health, and wellness instead of sports skills found that only three percent of its ninth graders were overweight. 

Warrant: Although some may say that focusing gym classes on teaching sports skills would be more beneficial for students, but I believe that students need to to focus more on physical fitness, health, and wellness. As you can see, in doing so, a school in Naperville only had three percent of its ninth graders overweight as opposed to 97 percent that wasn't. Teaching kids about health and wellness doesn't only benefit their diet choices, but their knowledge of physical education as well that will continue to help them in the future.

Argument #2

Claim:  When healthy choices are available along with junk food, students will tend to select the healthy options.

Evidence:  On a typical day at River Grove High School, the lunch featured grilled chicken breasts, rice, steamed broccoli, and a fruit cup of fresh watermelon cubes.  The cafeteria reported that 819 out of 1,120 students purchased this lunch selection, while the rest selected less healthy options.

Warrant: As you can see most students at River Grove High School on a typical day in the cafeteria pick the  healthier options. When students are at least presented with healthier options, they take advantage of that. Most kids like healthy food, but are never offered it. There will still be those students who choose less healthy food options, however, most students in this day in age, try to choose healthier options for themselves.

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.  Claim:  Removing junk food in vending machines will not significantly reduce funds for important school programs.

Evidence:  According to one principal, her school now receives nearly $100,000 a year from vending machines.  That money is used to pay for girls’ and boys’ volleyball teams, boys’ and girls’ cross country track teams, and girls’ and boys’ gymnastics teams.

Warrant: In fact, having junk food in vending machines will significantly help the schools' budget for important school programs. In receiving extra money from profit from vending machines, schools will be able to put that money towards sports teams, learning programs, and new resources for classrooms. In bringing in nearly $100,000 just from vending machine revenue, schools will only benefit from keeping vending machines in schools.