How does the narrator of "The One Who Watches" change from the beginning of the story to the end? What do you think causes the changes?
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The narrator of the story “The One Who Watches” changes from beginning to end in many ways. One way she changes is she becomes more self confident. I can tell this because at the beginning when she’s in the store with Yolanda she says that Yolanda had this friend who was “a baby” and did not want to do bad things with her, and every time Yolanda talks about her she gets this glare in her eye like she does not want her alive. Doris says she never wants Yolanda to look at her that way. Then at the end she decides she does not care what Yolanda thinks of her she is not going to get arrested even if that means losing a friend. Also she changes because she realizes she does not want to follow Yolanda around and runs away. One thing that caused Doris to change was she saw that a police man was coming up behind Yolanda so she hid. Also she realizes she does not want to be a follower so she leaves Yolanda and does not get in trouble. Doris changes in many ways from the beginning of the story and these are just a few.
The narrator of the story “The One Who Watches” does change from the beginning to the end of the story. At the beginning she is just as rowdy and bad as the other girl. But she was not as outgoing as Yolanda. She even says that if the cops came she would turn invisible. When Yolanda put on the dress Doris pointed out that it was quite costly and Yolanda claims that she won’t steal it, just model it. But Doris wasn’t sure. Then they got caught and Doris tried to slip out but they knew about her too so they couldn’t get back in there. Then at the end of the story when she is following Yolanda into another store she backs out and goes home because she felt sick. She didn’t even think about doing that earlier in the story because if she did she was worried Yolanda would ruin her life like she did to her last friend who left her. But at the end Doris realized it was not worth all the trouble and just left.
Doris understands that she has to change so that she wouldn't end up with the same fate as Yolanda. She thinks that she can hide from herself and everyone else even though she can't. So she stops following Yolanda once she notices that she is going to get her into trouble and runs away from the store. On the way home she starts to notice that she can't hide from other people or herself because people notice her running down the street and some yell at her. I think she wants to change after she spills her guts to her mother about how she feels.
Throughout the story “The One Who Watches”, Doris’ personality changes. In the beginning of the story, Doris would constantly follow her “friend”, Yolanda. If Yolanda went somewhere or if she had something to say, Doris wouldn’t stop her from saying or doing it, no matter how stupid or straight up it was. At one point in the story, Yolanda snuck into a very expensive stores fashion show and tried on their clothes, because she was too poor to buy them. Doris knew it was wrong, but she couldn’t stop her because she thought if she did that Yolanda wouldn’t want to be friends with her anymore. However, when Yolanda went as far as trying to steal a very high priced black-beaded evening bag, Doris knew it was getting way too out of hand. She left the store and ran away from what she thought was her friend. All along Doris was aware of the fact that Yolanda was more out-there than others. Unfortunately for her, it took a lot longer than it should to make her realize she deserved a better friend.
The narrator Doris changes from the beginning to the end in the short story, "The One Who Watches" for many reasons. In the story they both live in an environment with not a lot of money. They can’t always get what they want. Yolanda plays a big part of this when she puts on her mom’s heavy rain coat with big pockets even though it is not raining outside. She uses this jacket to steal something out of a store that she wanted. Doris is the follower in this story. She is shy and has low esteem. She does not have a strong friendship with Yolanda. She lets Yolanda talk her into trouble. This is an example of Doris’s actions in the beginning of the story. Another example of how Doris changes from the beginning of the story to the end is when Yolanda skips school and Doris follows her. They go to a teen fashion show that day for all the rich girls in New York and their overdressed mothers. Yolanda and her daring personality sneak into one of the dressing rooms along with Doris and tries on one of the dresses that was hanging up. Since Yolanda always wants to be a model she enjoyed doing this but Doris was uncomfortable. As soon as Yolanda tried on the dress someone shouted “Hey You.” As soon a Doris heard those words she nearly fainted. At the end of the story is when Doris changes and becomes a new character. Yolanda walks into a few stores and steals a purse. She takes out the crumpled paper and in an instant he puts the purse into a bag. Doris’s leg started to move and she got out of the store before she got in trouble. Doris is sick of following Yolanda around and always getting into trouble. One important quote from the story is “Are you sick, hija.” I nod my head. Yes. I’m sick. I am sick of following Yolanda into trouble. She had problems that make her act crazy.” So, from the beginning of the story Doris was following Yolanda and getting into trouble. And in the end she talks to her mom and admits that she does not want to follow Yolanda around anymore. Doris changes at the end and is considered a round character.
In the beginning of the story , The One Who Watches, Doris is a follower, She does things that she wouldn't normally do, Like steal food from stores, or sneek into places, And by the end of the sory, she leaves Yolanda, And realizes That she doesn't need to be with yolanda to figure out were she needs to be in life.She depends more on herself and not others.
Doris changes so much from the beginning to the end of the story. At the beginning, she did not have any self confidence. Besides Yolanda, she really didn’t have any friends. She didn’t try to reach out and make any. She was also afraid of losing Yolanda as a friend even though she really wasn’t a good one. In the story, Doris says that there was a girl that Yolanda used to be best friends with and the girl didn’t like the way Yolanda acted anymore and she told her mom. Now Yolanda absolutely hates her. Doris thinks that this will happen to her if she doesn’t just go along with everything that Yolanda does. Yolanda would want to go to all these fancy stores and try stuff on that she wasn’t supposed to and try to even steal things. Although Doris tries to act like she’s fine with it, she’s not at all. Towards the end of the story, Doris knows that Yolanda is about to steal something, and she gets so nervous to the point that she feels sick. So, Doris runs away and decides that she needs to be her own person. All of her feelings were just bottled up inside and I think that is what causes her to change. Doris is a good person inside and knows she can make good decisions and make new friends but her self esteem was just low. She didn’t believe in herself. She realizes leaving a person like Yolanda is the best thing for her and she did make the right decision.
The narrator in “The One Who Watches” changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. In the beginning of the story Doris is a follower to her “friend” Yolanda. Doris always used to follow Yolanda no matter what they did. For example, in the beginning of the story Yolanda saw an outfit in the store and she wanted to go try it on. When she went into the store they had to quickly sneak into a dressing room. Doris went in first and Yolanda sat on her lap. The lady in charge of the outfit and the fashion show that was going on found them in the dressing room. She was yelling at Yolanda for taking it and she made some racist remarks. Doris was a follower in the beginning of the story. But, as it started going to the end of it she was starting to become more independent. I think what caused these changes were Doris started to realize that when she was around Yolanda they would be getting into a lot of trouble. But, Doris made a good choice at the end of the story. She left Yolanda. This was a smart decision and it needed to be done. That is how Doris changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story.
I think Doris changes a lot during the story. For example Doris is this shy girl who just follows and never takes charge. Further more she hangs out with a girl named Yolanda that doesn’t set a good example to Doris by skipping class and even sneaking in to events that they weren’t invited to. Doris changes by some what making good choices in bad situations. For example Doris went to a fashion show with Yolanda and they went back stage and they were trying on clothes and Doris realized they shouldn’t be back there and hid in a changing room. Doris also changed at the end of the book when Yolanda was going to steal something she walked away from her and her friendship. In the end Doris changes in a good way by making the good choice and Yolanda and taking charge
The narrator of The One Who Watches changes from the beginning of the story to the end by becoming a leader. At first her choices were influenced by what Yolanda wanted her to do. She wanted to impress her and make her think she is cool. At the end she realizes Yolanda is trouble for her. When she finds out she is trying to steal things from a store Doris runs away from her. I think this change in character was influenced by Doris wanting to make good choices and her mom telling her Yolanda is no good for her. At the end she realizes she needs to make her own choices and be a leader not a follower.
I think that the narrator of the story "The One Who Watches" changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story because in the beginning of the story the narrator has low self esteem and she is always following her friend Yolanda around and she is afraid that if she doesn’t then Yolanda will do something bad to her like she did to this other girl. At the end of the story the narrator decides to leave Yolanda when she is in a store trying to steal things.
In the begging of the book Doris is what most people call a follower. Which means she doesn't have much of a mind of her own and just does what everyone else or someone else is doing instead.I know she is a follower because in the begging of the book she said her mother always says" Doris you follow Yolanda too much you are going to end up getting into trouble."She follows Yolanda at many differnt times in the story. Like when they skip school to go to New York and Yolanda goes into a nice store were a fashion show is going on. Doris knows it is wrong but she goes in anyway and then Yolanda attempts to get into the fashion show, but gets caught and gets them both kicked out of the store. Later in the book Yolanda tells Doris she wants somthing in a store and she is not just window shopping this time. So of course Doris follows and goes to the store and sees her stuff a bag into her raincoat. When she realizes she is trying to steal it she runs all the way home. This is when Doris turns into a leader and not a follower because she makes her own descision and runs away from a bad situation. Doris changes from being a follower to a leader when she runs away. In conclusion, that is how the narrator, Doris, changed from the begging to the end of the book.
The narrator (Doris) of “The One Who Watches” changes drastically from the beginning of the story to the end. The narrator (Doris) is six months younger than her friend Yolanda. Due to this , Doris has this mentality that she was born to the follow the leader, that’s what her mother even says when she sees both her and Yolanda together. For Example, In the beginning of the short story, One time both Yolanda and Doris skipped school so that Yolanda could go look around the big store on Thirty-fourth Street. It just so happened they were having a fashion show that day for the wealthy people in New York. So what does Yolanda do, She decides to sneak off into one of the dressing rooms so Doris began to follow. Then she began to actually proceed to get in line for all these dresses which were being distributed by all these busy woman containing tape measures around their necks. Once she began to walk around this man in a purple bodysuit began to yell at her saying “Those earrings are monstrous” and instead gave her a pair of gold hoops as he began to scream at another model. Doris immediately ran into a dressing stall and hid and then Yolanda instantly followed and ran and sat on Doris’s lap laughing her head off. Then Yolanda immediately showed Doris and Doris said “I just love this girl , She’s crazy and will do anything for fun”. Yolanda finally got caught when the girls got lined up for the show to begin, when nobody can find Yolanda’s name on the list. Doris just stood to the side and watched everything , promising to herself if and when it got too risky she would just slip out. If it wasn’t for Yolanda no one would even know if Doris was around, she was great to Doris but often scared her like the modeling incident . She promised to herself if the police ever came, she would become invisible. That Saturday Doris decides to spend the day over Yolanda’s. They had happened to have the place to themselves because Yolanda’s mother works weekends which set them up for a bit of trouble. Once Doris arrives, Yolanda tells Doris today we are going to go shopping . Doris then begins to notice that Yolanda is wearing her mothers shiny bright green raincoat with huge pockets. Doris began to realize that this wasn’t going to be any ordinary shopping and felt sick to her stomach and almost told her she wanted to go home. Yolanda then tells Doris she is not just window shopping today, she has seen something that she really wants. Yolanda and Doris finally arrived at one of the most expensive downtown stores in New York. Yolanda shows Doris the black beaded evening bag and begins to put it over her shoulder and begins to take off, stealing the bag. Doris then begins to change by then realizing that she is sick of following Yolanda into trouble, and Yolanda has problems that make her crazy. Doris’s choice at the end of the story by not following Yolanda when she stole the black beaded evening bag shows that she’s is not a follower., she’s a smart person, has more confidence, is courageous and most importantly show that she can stand up and fight for herself .
I think the character Doris in “The One Who Watches” changed from the beginning of the story to the end. In the beginning of the story Doris wasn’t too independent; she always followed her friend Yolanda around and did whatever she wanted to do. Yolanda was daring and adventurous and was always looking for trouble. Doris didn’t like this about Yolanda and didn’t really enjoy being her friend but she didn’t want to leave her in fear of being alone. In the end of the story Yolanda is about to be arrested and Doris decides she’s really better off without Yolanda and leaves her. Before Doris wasn’t confident enough in her self to leave Yolanda but now she has the confidence to do what she knows is right. This shows a big change in her Character. I can connect o this story because I remember my friend used to hang out with this guy who was making some bad choices. My friend didn’t really enjoy being with him anymore but he didn’t want to end there friendship because they been friends for a long time and he felt uncomfortable ending it now. But soon after his friend got in some trouble with the law and he decided it was better that he ends his friendship. I think my friend is similar to Yolanda because they both struggled with one of there friends but in the end made a good decision.
In the Story “the One Who Watches” Dorris, a low self-esteemed girl, follows Yolanda a sassy, rude, cocky, overconfident girl. Dorris changes as the story progresses by boosting her self-esteem and becoming a more confident person. In the begging Dorris explains why she follows Yolanda. Dorris has as I said before Dorris has very low self-esteem and calls herself a nobody and an “invisible person.” She and Yolanda would cut school and do bad things all the time. She also follows Yolanda because she tells her about her “old best friend” named Connie, and whenever Yolanda talked about her there would be a glare in her eye, and Dorris didn’t ever wanted to be looked at like that ever. As Yolanda progresses to do bad things which start to get worse and worse, one day she decides to wears a green raincoat with big pockets and goes to the store. Dorris knew that Yolanda was going to steal something, but this time instead of stealing small things like candy she was going to steal an expensive purse. Dorris at this point decides that she does not want to hang out with Yolanda anymore and grows up to become a more mature girl.
In the Story “the One Who Watches” Dorris, a low self-esteemed girl, follows Yolanda a sassy, rude, cocky, overconfident girl. Dorris changes as the story progresses by boosting her self-esteem and becoming a more confident person. In the begging Dorris explains why she follows Yolanda. Dorris has as I said before Dorris has very low self-esteem and calls herself a nobody and an “invisible person.” She and Yolanda would cut school and do bad things all the time. She also follows Yolanda because she tells her about her “old best friend” named Connie, and whenever Yolanda talked about her there would be a glare in her eye, and Dorris didn’t ever wanted to be looked at like that ever. As Yolanda progresses to do bad things which start to get worse and worse, one day she decides to wears a green raincoat with big pockets and goes to the store. Dorris knew that Yolanda was going to steal something, but this time instead of stealing small things like candy she was going to steal an expensive purse. Dorris at this point decides that she does not want to hang out with Yolanda anymore and grows up to become a more mature girl.
I think the narrator of the story "The One Who Watches" changes from the beginning of the story to the end because Doris started out being a follower and following Yolanda around like going into the teen fashion show with her and get in trouble with the lady in charge. Later in the story Doris changed by making her own decision by backing up slowly out of the store so she wouldn't get seen with Yolanda and leave her. Doris made the right choice by leaving Yolanda and not getting in trouble instead of staying with her and get arrested.
The narrator of " The One Who Watches" changes from the beginning to the end of the story in many ways, at the beginning of the story the narrator is very shy. When Doris introduces herself in the beginning of the story she is very timid about herself and speaks very highly of Yolanda. Yolanda was the good for nothing friend that was shoplifting to fulfill the life she didn't have. Doris on the other hand, is a follower she talks about Yolanda as if she is a G-d when really Yolanda is just out for herself in the world and whoever gets hurt in her way doesn't matter. In the middle of the story, after the incident in New York Doris is a little bit scared about what could have happened if their parents had found out that they had skipped school. That is when you can tell that Doris is starting to realize who the good and bad people in her life are. This quote shows that Doris is changing " ... I finally begin to feel my legs under me. I am moving back, away from the scene that starts happening really fast in front of me, as if someone had yelled " action" on a movie set." When this quote is said Yolanda had just put a purse she hadn't bought into her mother's big old green raincoat ( it is a perfectly sunny day outside with no clouds in the sky). This is evidence that Doris has just realized that if she hangs around anymore with Yolanda she will end up in some serious trouble. Doris changed from the beginning to the end of the story by realizing that Yolanda was a good for nothing criminal. I think the main factor that caused these changes were that Doris realized that her loving mom that was telling her that Yolanda was a lot of trouble. Like when her mother said " Nina, I'm telling you that senorita is trouble. She's trying to grow up too fast, sabes? Mira..." I think once she saw what Yolanda was doing she thought about how disappointed her mom would be and she also didn't want to screw-up her own life. By watching Yolanda's criminal behavior and realizing what kind of person she was Doris changed for the better from the beginning of the story to the end!
I feel that in the story “The One Who Watches” Doris changes from beginning to end in a good way. I say this because in the beginning of the story Doris is a follower of Yolanda who didn’t really have a mind of her own. This is shown many times in the story and tends to get her in a bit of trouble with people. For example when Doris and Yolanda skip school to go into the city, which wasn’t a good thing to start out with, Yolanda decides to sneak into a fashion shoot for young girls and pose as a model and get clothes given to her to put on. Very expensive clothes at that and when the management finds out they get called up to an office. While they’re there they are told that if they enter the building again that they will be arrested. This then leads to them being escorted out of the building by a security guard. This shows that Yolanda wasn’t a very good person and that Doris was foolish to let her control her like she had. Doris changes from beginning to end when Yolanda tries to shoplift and gets caught and Doris leaves. This shows that Doris was through with Yolanda’s shenanigans and that she was going to make decisions for herself now. I think that the major cause of this change was Doris’s growing up and her mother expressing her views about how Yolanda treated her but non-directly.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!revised!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doris from the short story, “The One Who Watches” is more of a follower. Her friend Yolanda is a wild out going character. She steals and sneaks into places. Doris wants to stay friends with her and is willing to do anything for Yolanda to stay friends with her. But that’s all about to change when Yolanda feels like doing something against the law. Yolanda is really in love with this purse that she sees while she is at the store, unfortunately she doesn’t have enough money to buy it, so she decides that’s she wants to steal it. Doris noticed that the cops saw her stealing the purse, and runs out of the store. Doris Disappointed realizes that she can find people that are better than Yolanda. It Kind of reminds me when friend was stealing from a store, and I never saw her as the same person again. I eventually left her and told her I wasn’t going to steal from a store and made some new friends. I think that Doris changed because she knew she was doing the wrong thing by staying with someone she really didn’t like. And I think she did it because she was tired of being a follower, and decided it was time to stop watching and start leading.
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