Getting Better

There are seven chapters in the short story which is: How to Deal with June, How a Xerox Machine Can Break, How to Tell the World You’re So in Love You’re Getting Married, How to Catch a Cheat Without Really Trying, How to Recover from Heartache by Trying Really Hard, How You Might Backslide, and How to Be Nice to Yourself.
The first chapter gives an introduction on the characters, situation and the setting of the story which is the wedding of the girl's friend on june. Basically, the division of the chapters tells the story of the lovers.

I kinda like this short story because while reading in the succeding chapters, there are problem and situations and in those chapters an advice from the author is displayed there. I think, this kind of reading is for matured people because in the story, foul language is present and adult situation is present like there is a scene there which I call "sex in the xerox machine"

This story is tells how to overcome your problems and do something so the same dillema or almost same one won't happen again to you. In this short story, Miko was having an affair with another girl. Karen, who is Miko's girlfriend and the one being cheated to is adviced on how to: know if her boyfriend is really cheating on her and also how to recover if Miko really did cheat on her. The advices are really "user friendly" which means that anyone can easily relate to the situation and for that, I think the author did a great job on giving advices and capturing attention of the readers.

Well, going back to the story, Karen discovered Miko was really cheating on her and naturally, she was really upset. Then, the author adviced many things on how to recover from her dillema. One of the many advices was to go and hang-out with friends at the mall because malling I think is like a girl thing and is usually is one of their many and favorite hobbies. When Karen does that, its as if she will temporary forget her depression and can be said as one of the steps to recovery. I think that will be a very effective thing for Karen.

The story is a “chick lit” reading because situations cited in the story can be said common. For me, I think this story is not most likely a short story but rather like a documentary because it studies and gives out lessons and descriptions etc.. To sum up, "Getting Better" is an article which tells us how to get better despite evrything.