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23/09/2025 8:09 am
The Ingredients
The story “The Ingredients” by Jason Reynolds tells a story about a friend group that loves to hang out and eat. The story symbolizes friendship and the importance of sticking together. The entire story explained how the boys were imagining many different sandwiches. They would all be drooling and add to the extravagant imaginations of the sandwiches. At the end of the story, they ended up at Flaco’s house. They ended the story with them having bowls of cereal. They were still all satisfied; this ending resembled good friendships and no judgment of Flaco and his food.
This story reminds me how sometimes, when I go out with my friends, we crave fast food, but we end up eating at my house because we don’t want to spend money. The same thing happened with Flaco and his friends, “Starving,” Jamal repeats. “I could go for a sandwich.”(Reynolds 2) This quote is about how Jamal is hungry for a sandwich, and his friends agree. My friends and I would also go to Range Pond during the summer to cool off on hot days. I also have a pool, and we hang out at my house a few times as well. We love cooling off on hot summer days, then getting out, dressing up, and going out to dinner. “The pool might as well be called heaven.” (Reynolds 1) Just like the boys in the story, my friends and I also believe the pool is like heaven, especially when we played softball in the scorching heat. My friends and I relate to this short story.
23/09/2025 8:30 am
It seems like a universal experience to stay home and make food from home instead of going out to buy food. It is so expensive. What kind of restaurants do you often wish you could go to after going in the pool?
I also love going out to eat after going in the pool. My family likes to sometimes get pizza after going in the pool but it depends on how much money we have.
With the inflation of prices lately it is getting more and more costly to take your family out for meals weather it be to fast food places or dine in restaurants.
I like your story and how you connected friendship and relationships into it.
23/09/2025 8:33 am
I love this because I love when you come over to my pool! This entry was relatable and paints a picture for the reader. I also love how you brought in the bigger message of not judging your friends. The money aspect was really inciteful, and it really can be expensive to eat as teenagers. I wonder if other people love swimming as much as we do??!
24/09/2025 10:09 am
I love how even though New York City is a vastly different place from the rural Maine we all grew up in, this is still a universally relatable story for many people. Even though your story is not one with a pool in Brooklyn and wanting to eat gourmet sandwiches, you related to this story quite well.
I also often end up choosing the cheaper option of eating food at home with friends. I think that nowadays many people choose to save money instead of splurging on the desired fast food. I wonder what other desires people compromise in order to save time, energy or money?
