Becoming Anna (1998) (edit title/settings)

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• William: William is a guy who was in the instiution who had become Tiffany (Anna at the end of the book)'s friend.He was a nice guy for the most part and very good looking.
• Dr. Limband: Dr.Limband is the one doctor who runs the first instution she went too, Magna Carta.She went and woke Tiffany up every morning at 7 am other than that she didn't see much of her.
• Lorri: Lorri is the pshcologist at WSH (Washington State Hospital). Lorri is very nice and everything to Tiffany and she wants to help her get out of WSH because Lorri knows how bad of a place it really is.
• Zach: i don't remember him, he must have been a small character.
• Joe: Joe was one of her many boyfriends, but she ended it because she didn't get the same feeling as she had when she first started dating him. He also wrote a letter to her telling her to leave me alone and never talk to me again. It was really mean.
• Francis: Francis was a little boy at the instituion, WSH. I don't remember much of him except that he was "crazy" like the rest of them there.
• Dr. Burns: Dr. Burns was the doctor at WSH and you never saw him. He only talked once threw out the whole book.
• Samuel: Samuel was a little boy who she chose not to become friends with, but then became friends with. The little boy was dying of Huntingtons disease. He was a small boy and was very fraile and weak.
• Jonathan: Joe was a guy at the instituion that she become friends with then at the end of the book accused her of calling him a female dog and took a tire iron to her, but never hit her. They dated more towards the middle of the book. Tiffany had many boyfriends throughout this book.
• Debbie: Debbie is a nurse at WSH. She was a very nice lady. She started taking Tiffany (anna) home on a weekly visit and she had stayed the night once, but then she remembered what her mom said " No one will ever love you, but me" and she started crying and never stayed there again.
• Melanie: Was a girl at Magna Carta. She was sent there becasue she had lived with old men and had gotten pregnant.
• Tasha: Tasha is another girl in the insitution but i don't remember her very much.
• Mr. Davis: Mr. Davis was the welding teacher. He was not mentioned much, like any teacher. He yelled at Joe to come here when Joe and Tiffany were fighting in front of the "school".
• Joseph: i don't remember him.
• Daniel: Daniel was a little boy in the institution that Tiffany became friends with. Very little part though.
• Opie: Opie was a hamster. Opie was Tiffany's hamster and she loved him to death.
• Steve: I don't remember steve.
• Shirley: I don't remember her.
• Loretta: Loretta was a girl at Magna Carta. One of the nurses one night had thought that they were lesbians because they were sitting on the same bed. That was not allowed.
• Suzi: i don't remember her.
• Tiffany: Add a description of this character.
• Mr. Hurst: He was a teacher but i don't remember for what or them even talkin about him.
• Matthew: I don't remember Matthew.
• Jake: I don't remember Jake.
• Dr. Kern: Dr.Kern was on of her psycologist before she went into Magna Carta. He was the one that sent her into Magna Carta. He basically said "Do you want to go on a little vacation" Of course Tiffany said yes, but either way if she said no she would have had no choice.
• Tyler: Tyler was one of the "watchers" at Magna Carta. He was young. Didn't really talk much about him. But he listened to the patients and he once carried Tiffany back to her room because she was so weak she fell over.
• Kyle: I don't remember Kyle
• Diana: Diana was a friend of hers at Magna Carta. They shared a room for a short time before they said that she had to move.
• Leo: Leo was a friend at WSH and he was there a short time before he went back home.
• Tyrone: Tyrone is also one of the "watchers" and he snickered and made rude comments to the patients. He was super mean and didn't care that he was picking on kids younger than him. He was MEAN!
• Angela: i don't remember Angela
• Dr. Bizaldo: Dr.Bizaldo is her doctor after she had been takin out of WSH. They didn't really talk much about him. Tiffany had went to therapy on her own and because she was an adult he believed her story.
• Wanda: i don't remember Wanda. She was a small character.
• Kevin: Kevin was a boy at the insitution but i don't remember him because he was a small character.
• Jason: I don't remember Jason. He was a small character.
• Dave: Dave was a small character.
• Mr. Nichols: Mr.Nichols is a small charcter. I don't even remember him.
• Josh: Josh is a small character and i don't remember him.
• Charles
• Mary: Mary is her foster mom. She went to court to become her foster mom because her mom and grandma wouldn't let it happend and she was sent to a group home well they waited for a trail.

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• “" I demanded that Zach tell me if he had put those stripes on Jonahtan's back, and he admitted quite freely that he had. He seemed not to feel particularly sorry or porud of himself,either. There was a slience until Zach glanced up and noticed my stricken expression"”

  Tiffany (Anna)

• “" As long as children have no rights or pwer of their won, then, intentionally or not, ther will always be those who will exploit them."”

  Tiffany (Anna)

• “" I never said Tiffany threatened me! It's those people at Magna Carta that said that! They're trying to make me look like the bad guy in all this!"”

  Tiffany's Mother

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• Magna Carta: This was the first institution that she was put in. Even though she did not want to be there she soon found out it was better than WSH.
• Wilson State Hospital: WSH is the second institution she was put in and it was the worst one ever!

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• Starting Over: Just because you go threw a ruff time in your doesn't mean you can't start over. Look at me my dad had surgery, we adapted. My dad died we are adapting still and learning a new way of living. Your life may not be perfect but you have to adapt any way you can. Like Anna (Tiffany) did. She adapted to the mental institutions and she ajusted to her life after she got out of the mental institutions.
• A few Symbols in the book: Dark and Cold: The author used these adjectives to describe the mental institutions as dark and cold, along with her room at the house.Crazy: Everyone thought she was crazy. At WSH they called her "Crazy Girl".
• Values: Dad's values were his TV and his porn. Mom's value is not being frustrated and going into an episode. Brother's value is tormenting his sister. Anna (Tiffany)'s values are her hamster Opie and proving she's not crazy. * Yes these really are there values and i do know what they mean (important to them)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Anna J. Michener (Author)

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• Dewey: 362.76092

Notes for Parents edit see section history

My lexile is-988-1138. The books lexile rang is 1030.

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• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Abuse
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Abuse & Self Defense › Sexual Abuse
• Books › Parenting & Families › Family Relationships › Child Abuse
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling