In chapter five, “Changes and Ceremonies”, the school holds its annual operetta. It was ironic that they would be performing The Pied Piper this year. It is the story of city children who are lured away from their homes by a magician. During the play's rehearsal, the students are "liberated by the operetta from the routine of our lives, remembering the classroom where Mr. McKenna was busy with spelling bees and the mental arithmetic of those not chosen, as a sad place and dark, left behind, we were all Miss Farris's allies now" (Munro, 124). I could really relate to this part because every day is a routine for me. I drive to school, walk in the same hallways, sit in a classroom with the same four walls, see the same people, and go home. The weekend is the only time I feel free from routine. In this chapter, we see a different side of Del. Del has a crush on a boy in his class and this is the first time in the book that Del has sexual feelings towards someone. At the end of the chapter, four or five years later, Miss Farris, the director of the play, commits suicide by drowning in a river. The reader may remember Miss Farris's stressful cry at the operetta rehearsal: "I might as well jump off the town hall! I might as well jump now! Are you ready to take responsibility?" (Munro, 127). I thought it was ironic how Miss Farris said this during the show and ended up committing suicide at the end of the chapter. In chapter six, “Lives of Girls and Women,” Del and her friend Naomi have daily conversations about sex. . They are both virgins at this point in the book. However, Del meets Chamberlain, a news anchor at the local radio station, and on an envelope he writes, "Del is a bad girl." Abandoning his... in the middle of the paper... a conversation between Del and Bobby Sherriff. Bobby wishes Del good luck in life and smiles. Now that I've finished reading Lives of Girls and Women, I realize that the book is written around a series of crises, chapter after chapter, that Del must find himself in. As you continue reading the book and Del continues to grow, each problem Del faces becomes more and more serious and difficult to solve. It's just like in real life. When you are a child, you have no problems. As you grow, the hardest decision becomes which color of crayon to use. As you continue to age, the decision becomes what job to do for the rest of your life. As you end your life in high school and begin your journey as an adult, your problems become heartbreak, taxes, bosses, employees, and money. Our lives are like chapters in this book. At the end of each chapter, the problems become increasingly difficult to solve.