Character Trait Essay for Dancing Naked by Shelley...

Choices. No matter how hard you try, you can never make all the right ones all the time. Not all decisions are hard, yet most important things aren’t easily achieved, and the journey and experiences you get will go with you forever. Kia was not always the altruistic attitude was not always evident in her decisions until she was forced to make the hardest decision of her teen life, yet after she makes the choices they form her into a different and wiser person. Kia is better at making tough decisions that most of us would rather not want to even think about. Although teen pregnancy has often been associated with issues of principles and authority, for many teens it is full of hard decisions and change. A pregnant teen not only has†¦show more content†¦Kia, a young teenager who endures the hardships of not only pregnancy but the decision of adoption, is able to keep hold of her good values and reassess others that are tweaked, is a mentally strong person. Being str ong means having the ability to cope with pressing and traumatic experiences and having the ability to persevere in the face of conflicts. When Kia finds out that she is with child she decides to keep the baby and finds friends that will stick with her throughout the heavy times-namely Justin from her church youth group and Grace from the old persons home she volunteers at. Although this time in her life is important and also filled with hard decisions her perceived childhood friend Shawna and people at school shun her, for not terminating her child, when what she needs most is support. Kia not only sees the reasons for her old friends’ distance she eventually confronts those who had shut her out and shows them that she has indeed changed for the better and is able to be better than the superficial attitude they had extended towards her for the duration of her pregnancy. Rather than just pretend that nothing is different between them, as many would have done, Kia risks h er oldest standing friendship because she knows that that would not be a true friendship ever again because of this large moral gap. This part of the story reveals that Kia is mentally strong because she