R.L.Stine is very popular author.He writes horror fiction novellas and each one belongs to one serial.The stepsister belongs to Fear Street..Main characters in this book are Emily,her sister Nancy,mother,stepfather,stepsister *jessy* and stepbrother Rich.Emily is trying to like Jessie,but that’s hard because after a while strange things started happening.Jessie *tore* off the head of Emily’s teddy-bear,put orange dye into her shampoo and deleted very important file from her computer.One day Emily read Jessie’s diary and found horrifying secret.From that moment she’s starting to believe that Jessie is capable of murder.In the end of the book things became completely different,nothing is as It seemed..They all went on a camping,and while Emily was searching for something,someone pushed her hard from behind.She plunged forward into the open grave and landed hard on her knees sending a shock pain up and down her legs.Then both hands hit,plunging into the thick,cold mud.She started to scream ‘Jessie,let me out’..Somehow,after long time of trying,she get out of the grave and saw Nancy,her sister..She was extreamly shocked.Nancy told her that she has to die like their Dad who died in accident,but Nancy blamed *emily* for that.In the end,Nancy was put in mental hospital.Jessie and *emily* became very close,and they had no argues.

Cecilia

Thank you for your openness. At the risk of sounding defensive, I feel I must clarify my personal definition of ‘competition’. I believe that competition is necessary for progress to occur but not a nasty kind of competition like the rat race where people climb over each other in a wild stampede. Rather, competition against ourselves to constantly become ‘better’, however people define that, is the core ingredient if something greater than the status quo is to be achieved. There has to be a will for something greater which is to my mind, competition.

The issue here is that ’something greater’ is defined by something we don’t have but that exists outside ourselves, often in others. Therefore, I think competition with others is inevitable. We measure our value (and any value) against others’. After all, value and quality is ascribed to someone or something in relative terms. A film is good because it is better than the others.

Being competitive does not necessarily mean I want someone else to suffer or to have less than me. Being competitive, to me, means I dare to say I’m not afraid to compete, to test my strengths and push myself against the STANDARDS (defined through a collective/others). It also tells me it’s fine if I’m not as good as those people. For example, Jasna Cizmic who is going to someday be an architect, has an excellent sense of direction. I don’t. I tried competing with her and lost shamelessly. The experience taught me to be humble and to accept that Jasna is just spatially-talented whereas I am talented in other ways. It also taught me how to map things out in my mind a little better because I did eventually get it (though much later). Isn’t that the beauty of difference? We can each be good at different things and push each other forward through healthy competition, putting our best foot forward in our respective areas for a common good?