Respect your friend’s decision, even if it’s painful for you. Don’t hold out hope that they’ll change their mind. It’s not possible to make someone care about you, and dwelling on the rejection will only make you feel worse. Find a close friend or family member to talk to during this process. This can help you find support and feel less lonely during this time. Find someone who is not a mutual friend of your old friend and who can provide an unbiased opinion about the situation. Remind yourself that friendships end for all kinds of reasons. Rejection is tough, but it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person or unworthy of making new friends. It just means that particular friendship wasn’t a good fit for the other person. If your self-esteem has taken a hit, take some time for yourself to recover. Work on personal projects or develop a new skill to rebuild your confidence. Socialize with positive people who are openly loving and warm toward you to remind you that you are worthy of friendship. Do not follow a former friend around or beg them to take you back. That will only irritate the person and erode your sense of self-respect. Give them their distance, and focus on moving forward with your own life. Reach out to befriend your coworkers, classmates, and other acquaintances. If you don’t know many people, consider joining a club or taking a class to meet others with similar interests as you. If you want to get to know someone better, asking them questions about themselves and inviting them to get coffee with you is a good way to start. Just don’t ask anything too personal before you know them well. You’re not a toy, so don’t let anyone treat you like one. It’s okay to accept the person’s friendship again if you want to, but don’t make them the center of your social circle, especially if they caused you weeks or months of pain.  If you realize that your friend is only coming back to you because they lost another friend or broke up with someone, you may want to consider turning down their friendship. Take a few months to think about the situation before deciding if that person is truly invested in the relationship again.

Summary: Accept that your friend has moved on. Avoid blaming yourself. Avoid chasing the person. Make new friends. Be cautious if your former friend tries to revive the friendship.


Although your Havana rabbit should be healthy with a proper diet and habitat, she should be taken in once a year to the veterinarian for a check-up. Your vet will give her a physical examination to make sure she is growing properly, is healthy overall, and that her teeth are growing in correctly and aren't too long. If her teeth are too long, she may need to have her teeth trimmed by your vet to ensure she can eat correctly and so they won't cause problems. If you are not planning on breeding your rabbit, you should have her spayed (or neutered if your rabbit is male). This should be done when she is four to six months old. This will help prevent unwanted breeding as well as stop aggressive behaviors and prevent cancer or infections in her reproductive system. Although you take care of your rabbit, she may get sick. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, you should take her to the vet immediately. Common symptoms to look out for that signal that you rabbit may be sick include:  Decrease or halt in appetite or water consumption Diarrhea Lack of defecating for 24 hours Discharge from the eyes or nasal passage Drooling, which may be a sign of overgrown teeth Swelling or reddening of the skin Loss of the fur anywhere on her body Inability to use her back legs, which makes it difficult for her to hop or move her back legs Dark or red urine Fever, which is a temperature of more than 105 °F

Summary: Have regular checkups. Spay or neuter your pet. Look for common symptoms of sickness.


Knowing the background of the text and its author can help you understand the influences on the text. To understand the context of the text, answer the following questions:  When was the text written? What is the historical background of the work? What is the author’s background? What genre does the author work in? Who are the author's contemporaries? How does this text fit in with the author's larger body of work? Did the writer provide their inspiration for the text? What type of society does the author come from? How does the text’s time period shape its meaning? The theme encompasses the subject and the writer’s thoughts on that subject. It helps to think of the theme as the message of the book. What is the author trying to say?  A short story might have 1 or 2 themes, while a novel might have several. If the text has several themes, they might be related. For example, the themes of a sci-fi novel might be “technology is dangerous” and “cooperation can overcome tyranny.” The main ideas will likely be related to the theme of the text. Examine the characters, their relationships, and actions, and the issues that arise in the text to identify the main ideas.  Notice the character’s words, actions, and thoughts. Consider what they convey about the character, as well as possible themes. Watch for symbolism, metaphor, and the use of other literary devices. Pull out direct quotes where the author illustrates their points. For a longer text, you will likely find several. It’s a good idea to note as many as you can, especially if you’ve been assigned an essay or will be tested over the material. You can use these quotes to support your own claims about the text if you write an analysis essay. The writer’s style can include their word choice, phrasing, and syntax, which is the arrangement of the words in a sentence. Although style can be strictly an aesthetic quality, it can also contribute to the text’s meaning.  For example, Edgar Allan Poe’s style of writing enhanced the effect of his poems and stories in an intentional way. If you were analyzing one of his texts, you’d want to consider his individual style. As another example, Mark Twain uses dialect in his novel Pudd'nhead Wilson to show the differences between slave owners and slaves in the deep south. Twain uses word choice and syntax to show how language can be used to create a divide in society, as well as control a subsection of the population. The author's tone is their attitude or feeling toward the subject. Through their language choices, sentence structure, and use of literary devices, the author can create different tones that lead you as a reader to feel a certain way about the subject.  Common tones include sad, solemn, suspenseful, humorous, or sarcastic. Tone can be indicative of not only what's happening in the piece, but of larger themes. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz changes tone, for example, when Dorothy leaves Kansas for Oz. This is seen in the film through the change in color, but in the novel, this is established through the shift in tone.
Summary: Review the context of the text, such as when it was written. Identify the theme of the text. Determine the main ideas of the text. Identify pieces of text that support the main ideas. Examine the author’s writing style. Consider the author's tone.