

On page 144, Wells uses the word "violent" to describe Lex's reaction to a few questions. He is obsessed with Cherry and has abusive tendencies. He reminds me of a stalker who would end up becoming an abusive spouse.

Cherry says that she needs to be honest, and then she tells an obvious fib in the next breath. The girl tells Cherry that she knows that the teddy bear can't talk. Just after Cherry's thinks about how she has to be honest with children, Cherry tells the girl that a teddy bear spoke to her that morning, wanting a playmate. On page 12, Cherry tells a girl, " 'I'll try to have your mother come, Mary Ruth, but I can't promise.' She knew she had to be scrupulously honest with children, to keep their trust." Oh, really? When I read this sentence, I thought of the burned boy and how Cherry promised him that he would look the same. Later, Lex, a young doctor, pursues Cherry relentlessly, even to the point of becoming Dr. Her first assignment gets off to a shaky start when the maid smuggles a rabbit into the children's ward, and Cherry plays along with the prank. In Cherry Ames #2, Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, 20-year-old Cherry Ames begins her senior year of nursing school. I find the sentimentality to be excessive even for girls' books, and it is too much for me. I especially notice it because I have been reading boys' series books, which don't have the excessive amount of reflection in them. These books have lots of sentimentality in them. On page 137, Cherry assures him that he "won't look a bit different." The child needed to be reassured, but I didn't like Cherry assuring him that he wouldn't look different at all. There again, Wells uses ethnicity to point out differences.Ī hot water boiler explodes in a young boy's face, and he is badly burned. She thinks about how they are very different on the surface including of different nationalities but that they have similar personalities. On page 132, Cherry thinks of how two nurses are friends. On pages 60 and 61, "Cherry looked down into the contrasting faces: a plump Jewish grandmother, an Italian woman with a smile like a sunburst, a tiny little Irish girl not much older than herself, a Slavic woman who spoke no English. I noticed how Wells uses ethnicity to point out the differences between people. Soon, Cherry becomes aware of a secret patient and is faced with a dilemma when the patient faces an emergency. She becomes good friends with several other nursing students.

Cherry makes a few mistakes along the way and worries that she won't measure up. In Cherry Ames #1, Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, Cherry begins her probationary year of nursing school.
