Book: Beany and the Dreaded Wedding
By: Aria M.
May-28-2014
Have you ever worried crazy about a wedding? Well, here's a girl who did. In the book Beany and the Dreaded Wedding, Bernice, or Beany is invited to be a flower girl in a wedding and is stressed that she will mess up. I think that Bernice/Bean is very worried, or stressed about being in the wedding.
Bean is very nervous about being a flower girl because she doesn't want to mess up. Beany thinks that something will go wrong, just because of her. For example, when Bean's cousin Amy came over and first asked her to be the flower girl, she worried herself. She thought about the bad things that could happen rather than thinking about the good things that could happen. Bean's exact thoughts were, 'I didn't tell Carol Ann, but those were the exact reasons I didn't want to be in my cousin's wedding. What if the back of my hair came out all weird and lumpy that day and everyone could see it while I stood at the altar? What if the photographer asked us to say "cheeseburger" while he took the picture, and snapped it right while I was on the b sound? What if I dribbled soup or had a piece of food hanging on my chin while I ate? What if they made me do the chicken dance? Scariest of all, though, was the thought of walking down the aisle with everyone looking at me. I didn't know if I could do that.' She is constantly thinking that everything will go wrong. Beany doesn't want to be in the wedding also because she thinks that she has to wear a big, fancy dress. She told her mom, 'Mom, I can't be in the wedding. They are going to make me wear a fancy, magazine dress and no one will come near me. Carol Ann said so.' She shortly found out that you can wear any kind of dress for the wedding. Now that she knew that, she wrote a letter to her cousin, Amy. It included things that she did NOT want, and things that are OK. Bean might not really fancy stuff because it might bother her a lot.
This proves that Beany was scared for the wedding. She will soon learn to get over it. Bean learns to concur her fear, which is good for her, and her family.