Because of Winn-Dixie

               Friends are like family to people. In Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Opal’s friends are like family. Opal really needs friends. Opal needs friends because they can be like family to her. Winn-Dixie and Opals friends helped her fill up to the top in the whole that she had when her mom left.

                 Winn-Dixie got Opal tons of friends. For example, Winn- Dixie went into Gloria Dump’s yard and Gloria Dump liked him but Opal was still left behind so she followed Winn-Dixie to the yard and found Gloria Dump and became friends with her. Another example, when Opal realized that Winn-Dixie needed a collar she had to go to the pet store and buy a collar and she met Otis and became friends. Lastly, Sweetie Pie Thomas was inspired by Winn-Dixie she became friends with Opal.

                Opal’s friends were nice to her. Dunlap was helping Opal up by offering his hand and Opal thought that that was really nice. Ms. Franny read stories and told stories, it calmed Opal and Ms. Franny down and Ms. Franny also gave Opal littmus lozenges which made her feel happy and sad at the  same time and also made her think of her mom.

                Opal’s friends are like mom to her. Gloria Dump helped Opal plant a tree like a mom would do. Opal was sweeping the store at Otis’s pet shop and that’s like doing chores in the house and Otis was a criminal and Opal was his friend this makes me think that friends can be anybody. Has your mom ever gave you candies? Ms. Franny gave Opal candies that were called Littmus Lozenges. This made Opal think of her mom.

Some people need happiness in their life. In other books I have read when people have no happiness they feel like the worst person in the world. In other books I have read when people are barely happy they feel like the king of the world. In Winn-Dixie Opal gets a little bit of happiness and is really happy. In real life people need happiness.