Prediction

Author's Note: This is my prediction piece for the story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The beginning is a creative piece for how i thought the story was going to end and the end is an essay for my reasoning. 

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Walking  into the barbershop she sat herself down in the chair. She didn't ask, she didn't say anything, she just sat down and expected to be waited on.

"May I hel-"

"I want my hair bobbed," she announced to the confused barber while also announcing it to everyone else in the shop.

"Are you sure about that," the barber questioned? "I've never done something on such a young women and I think you might be making a mist-"

"That's enough. I want my hair bobbed and I want it now," she clearly stated so he would finally understand.

"Okay, let me just go get you a cape and we'll get started on your bob."

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Bernice stared into the eyes of Marjorie. She could tell she was jealous. Ever since yesterday when she got her hair bobbed, all the guys wanted her. Now, her hair is full of volume and each slightly curled in strand lies perfectly against her head. Each luxurious lock of hair has made her the most popular girl in town; so why would she ever want to go back home?

"I know you aren't going to agree with this decision, but I'm doing it anyway," stated Bernice in a very snotty tone. "This town loves me and you know it. I am already more popular then you and it's your fault. You thought this new hairdo was going to ruin me, but it came back and bit you in the behind."

"This isn't my fault. I never actually wanted you to do it. I was in fact thinking about doing it myself," Marjorie shot back.

"Now you're just lying straight to my beautifully, perfect face. You are the one who made me like this and now you are going to have plenty of time to think of your revenge because I am staying and living with you. Since you seem to love me so much.

"You can't," Marjorie wept. "Mother and Father will never let you."

"They already agreed to let me stay. And even better, you’re my new roommate."

Marjorie repeated these words over and over again in her mind. Roommate? She couldn't bear the though of it so she just walked away. The thing was though, she didn't stop walking, she walked straight out of her house and down the street, she didn't know where she was walking, she wasn't going to stop though. She was just going to continue walking and go all the way into the sunset.

Predictions are something that can sometimes be based on the beginning of the story or movie, or they can just be random. For this prediction though, I definitely based it on the beginning.

For some reason I just knew that Bernice was going to bob her hair. Obviously the title states that she bobs it, but it kind of seemed like the story was going somewhere else. In my mind though, I just knew. I think I knew because Bernice was trying to be the most noticed and the most popular girl in town. A good way to get noticed is to do something that almost no one has done before; such as getting your hair bobbed. The other part of my prediction may seem random, but it does have reasoning.

If your cousin comes into town and is no threat to anyone, you wouldn't care. Right? Then all of a sudden she becomes way more popular then you and you are suddenly downgraded on the popularity chart. You would be furious. Next you try to downgrade her by getting her hair bobbed and then that backfires on you by making her even more popular. Now you're mad, but not to extremes because she is going to leave in a week or to anyways, right? Wrong. She is now the most popular girl in this town so why would she ever go back to somewhere where you're not popular and no one really likes you? You wouldn't. You would stay right there where you are now loved by everyone. Where you would be wanted by every boy and have tons of friends!

It's now all good for Bernice, but now Marjorie is not nearly as popular and mad as ever, then her terrible cousin is going to move in! No way. She can't stay for it so she leaves. The thing is, she leaves so quickly without thinking she doesn't know where she's going, she just needs to escape. So yes, some predictions can be way off even if they are based on the beginning of the story, but they are still much more accurate then if you just guess and use no knowledge at all.